Benedict in America
What was the legacy of the pope’s visit? Six of our writers weighed in.
Teaching the Faith in a Postmodern World
The challenge and opportunity of preaching the Gospel to a contemporary audience
Partners in Ministry: The role of women in Jesuit education
The Jesuit partnership with women goes back to the earliest days of the order.
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
A move from Manhattan to Brooklyn, and getting to know a new parish
Letters
Letters
Dumb Brutes
Regarding Stafford Betty’s “Letter to a Reluctant Atheist” (4/14): It is very difficult to conceive of contemplative experience divorced from any theological construct. After all, human nature is rational. We strive to find answers to our fundamental questions, to find meaning in and around us. To experience anything at all without finding meaning…
Editorials
Peace in the 21st Century
As we have learned in both Iraq and Afghanistan, security in the 21st century will demand a comprehensive response that uses a full spectrum of resources. “Soft power,” in the form of diplomacy, economic development and human rights enforcement, will be more in evidence than military for
Books
His Life So Far
Edward Hirsch president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foun-dation has contributed mightily to our appreciation of poetry How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love With Poetry 1999 discourses on all the aspects of poetry drawing widely on what the poets themselves have had to say about it Po
Life After Life After Death
A review of N.T. Wright’s Surprised by Hope.
Did They Die in Vain?
The dramatic question in the headline above was asked by mdash among many others mdash the Rev John L Girardeau a Presbyterian theologian at a ceremony honoring the Confederate dead from Gettysburg being re-interred in Charleston rsquo s Magnolia Cemetery in 1871 The question was meant rhetori
The Word
Who Is God for You?
Who is God for you That is a question to stop a conversation or empty a room even of learned and devout Christians It is at once a very personal question since we each experience God in a unique way and a very broad one The phrase ldquo for you rdquo is important since the…
Columns
Cicero and Jesus in the United States: ‘Ultimately, truth is a person.’
Benedict’s trip to the U.S. was a sojourn of hope
News
Signs of the Times
Paraguayans Elect Retired Bishop Lugo as President Retired Bishop Fernando Lugo was elected president of Paraguay April 20, ending the six-decade rule of the Colorado Party. Bishop Lugo took an early lead in the pre-election polls despite official disapproval from the Vatican and, initially, from th
Politics
Faith
Culture
Vatican
Scripture
Podcasts