Questions for the Candidates: What should American foreign policy look like?
What should U.S. foreign policy look like?
The Word of God Today
How can we make the Bible central to Catholic life?
‘Nourished and Ruled By Sacred Scripture’: Reflections for the 2008 General Synod of Bishops
Reflections for the 2008 General Synod of Bishops
‘A Hymn With Many Voices’: Communicating God’s presence through preaching and proclamation
Communicating God’s presence through preaching and proclamation
The Original Testament: A Catholic approach to the Hebrew Bible
A Catholic approach to the Hebrew Bible
Sowing the Word: Scriptural understanding has flourished since Vatican II, but challenges remain.
Scriptural understanding has flourished since Vatican II, but challenges remain.
Ever Ancient, Ever New: Lectio divina is not just for monastics anymore.
In writing this short reflection on lectio divina in relationship to the coming Synod of Bishops. I was again forcefully reminded of the great watershed that the Second Vatican Council has been for Roman Catholics and for all other Christian churches. For 400 years following the Counter-Reformation,
From Council to Synod: What the world’s bishops have learned from Vatican II’s
The Synod on the Word of God is truly a monumental event for the church. Now that the final agenda for the synod is available with the publication in May of its working document (called in Latin an instrumentum laboris, IL), it is useful to consider how the agenda can help implement the church&rsquo
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
A boy's life in Staten Island
Letters
Letters
Justice for Africa As someone who works to promote social justice in Africa, I applaud “Decline and Progress in Africa,” by Peter Schineller, S.J. (8/11). Schineller is absolutely correct in suggesting that the solution to Africa’s problems must come from within Africa and that int
Editorials
The Word and Mission
‘The Word of God should lead to love of neighbor.’
Faith in Focus
Pomp and Simplicity: The wonders of Lourdes in its jubilee year
The wonders of Lourdes in its jubilee year
Books
Explaining Evil
Alan Jacobs’ ‘Original Sin,’ reviewed
Dont Bother About Thrills
This new selection of C S Lewis rsquo s letters on spiritual matters makes good reading even for someone already conversant with Lewis rsquo s life and work Compiled by the longtime Lewis scholar and enthusiast Paul F Ford Yours Jack is reader-friendly The subtitle suggests that the collectio
More Than a Magical Series
The legacy of 'Little House on the Prairie'
Apocalypse Now
James Howard Kunstler rsquo s novel begins in the pastoral setting of a riverbank where the narrator Robert Earle and his best friend Loren Holder have concluded a successful fishing excursion Although they are slightly intoxicated by the natural beauty around them and by some home-made wine th
Poetry
Clotheslines
I feared the bugs in Nicaragua
The Word
God’s Vineyard
Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), Oct. 5, 2008
Catholic Book Club
September Selection
Just published is a new and remarkable memoir by the gifted spiritual writer and poet Kathleen Norris For many years she underwent her own ldquo dark night rdquo of the soul In a letter to the reader she tells of her study and investigation into this state of spiritual dryness a sense of not ca
Columns
Thoughts From a Spiritual Toolkit: ‘What a wonderful device an apostolic lens might be.’
‘What a wonderful device an apostolic lens might be.’
Current Comment
Current Comment
Reading Paul, Worsening Health Care Coverage, A Neighbor in Need
News
Signs of the Times
Catholics Worldwide Reach Out to Haiti Catholic relief agencies and parishes worldwide are responding to the devastation in Haiti, which has been battered by four severe hurricanes. Caritas Internationalis, the umbrella organization for 162 national Catholic charity organizations, is seeking $4.3 mi
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