A Church Transparent: What Catholic leaders have learned from the world of business
The first visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the United States focused the media on many of the ills plaguing the Catholic Church, from the sexual abuse scandals to the shortage of priests to the shuttering of schools and parishes by cash-starved dioceses. What receives virtually no exposure, by contrast
The Financing of Health Care
Cell A represents pure “socialized medicine” such as the V.A. health system. In that system government performs all of the basic functions listed in the article. Cells A to F represent “social insurance” systems. In these, government performs the financing and risk-pooling fu
Second Thoughts
Latin was discarded; the celebrant about-faced; laymen were permitted to make themselves heard from the sanctuary; choirs were disbanded in favor of community sings. My God, it was beautiful! Or at least it would be, as soon as a few problems were worked out…. By now, however, the evidence indicat
Barack Obama and Abortion: A response to John Kavanaugh, S.J.
John Kavanaugh, S.J., is one of those scholars who enriches every dialogue to which he brings his voice. I’ve long admired his provocative scholarship challenging the consumerist orientation of the American culture. The challenging “ethics across the curriculum program” that he directs at St. Louis University illustrates time and again how the Catholic mind must…
Debating ‘Souled Out’ III: Faith, feeling & the GOP
Read Part I and II of this discussion.
Dear Kathleen:
This has been quite a week for American politics—from Denver to the Twin Cities. As you pointed out in your last post, the changes we saw at the Democratic convention (the popularity of Jim Wallis and his progressive faith movement, the prime-time…
The True Cost of Care: The complicated relationship between the market and government health programs
What would universal health care look like?
‘A Transplant of the Heart’: Miguel d’Escoto’s vision for the United Nations
Miguel d’Escoto’s vision for the U.N.
Expressing Holy Things: Why liturgical language should be accurate, faithful and clear
Why liturgical language should be accurate, faithful and clear
A Bold New Direction: Richard H. Tierney and America’s foray into politics
Richard H. Tierney and America‘s foray into politics
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
The restless mind of Norris Clark, S.J.
Letters
Letters
The Democrats and Abortion Debates will continue on the efficacy of criminalization as an antidote to the practice of abortion, but I agree heartily with John F. Kavanaugh, S.J. (“Dear Senator Obama,” 8/18) that it would be folly to put all our eggs in that one basket. I hope someone on
Editorials
Secession Ethics
The difficult lessons of the Georgian conflict
Faith in Focus
Homage to Catalonia: Woody Allen takes Barcelona
Woody Allen takes Barcelona
Blessed Interruptions: God can be found in the moments that upset our rhythms.
Finding God in moments that surprise us
Books
A Striking Original
I am always intrigued by the epigraph an author uses to set the thematic mood for his or her work Gerald O rsquo Collins is prodigal with epigraphs often providing one or two to introduce each chapter Perhaps most telling is the one with which he prefaces the last chapter of his latest book Jesu
Participant Observer
Charles E Curran is a highly regarded theologian whose works have been widely read and appreciated by colleagues for nearly 50 years He is also well known beyond the academy in the best sense he has been a ldquo man of the church rdquo who has not shied away from controversy when he thought t
Sentimental Journey
Older readers mdash well really old readers mdash may recall a ditty sung by the irrepressibly cheerful Dinning Sisters back in 1946 ldquo Soon the sun disappeared from view The stars came out like they always do Then I cuddled up close to you And we both fell in love on a Greyhound Bus T
Poetry
For Winslow
The substance of God
The Word
The Holy Cross
Today we step aside from the usual sequence of readings for the Sundays in Ordinary Time to celebrate the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Since many Catholic institutions schools churches religious communities etc bear the name of ldquo Holy Cross rdquo the expression may be so f
Columns
National Civics Lesson
We have reached that stage of the election cycle when travel-weary commentators direct their ire at a hardy artifact of the old millennium, the national political convention. As thousands of delegates prepare for a few days of around-the-clock socializing and caucusing, their Boswells in the politic
Current Comment
Current Comment
A New Blessed Couple, Record Time in Beijing
News
Signs of the Times
No Letup in Anti-Christian Violence in India Catholic educational institutions across India closed Aug. 29 to protest the continuing violence against Christians that has left at least 11 people dead in India’s eastern Orissa State. On Aug. 26 Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil of Ernakulam-Angamaly,
Politics
Faith
Culture
Vatican
Scripture
Podcasts