Four Lessons for Teaching Justice: Education for justice requires freeing the imagination and stimulating inventiveness.
Education for justice requires freeing the imagination and stimulating inventiveness.
Learning, Living, Doing: Education in and out of the classroom
One Jesuit school’s comprehensive approach to education
A Catholic Alternative: What’s missing in the debate on education
What’s missing in the debate on education
Catholics and Obama: Can the church work with the new administration?
Recent storms sighted above the Hilltop and the Golden Dome remind us that the Catholic academic community is not living through a time of political serenity, but has a continuing ability to draw lightning strikes from the media, from theological vigilantes and from concerned bishops. How are the moral and religious commitments of the Catholic…
Working with the Poorest: Among the young, the attraction of humanitarian work persists.
Service arising from faith in a God who cares for the world’s most vulnerable: these were hallmarks of an April 15, 2009 conference that celebrated the ten-year collaboration between Catholic Relief Services and Fordham University. CRS places graduates of Fordham’s International Political Economic and Development program into CRS internships overseas. Begun by the U.S. Catholic…
The Case for Empathy: Why a much-maligned value is a crucial qualification for the Supreme Court
Justice has often been depicted as both female and blindfolded to convey impartiality. The femininity of the judicial symbol is ironic, since as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has pointed out more than once, it’s lonely, gender-ly speaking, on the high bench. But what of empathy, the ability to stand in the other person’s shoes? President…
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Expectations are low for the pope’s visit to the Holy Land, but I am ready to be surprised.
Letters
Letters
Some, But Not All A correspondent in a recent issue (Letters, 4/20) wrote that “it is a great pity that the American bishops do not choose to lead by recognizing the complexity of the issue on which they are called to teach, and then teaching in a way that produces more light and less heat.&rd
Editorials
Sectarian Catholicism
The U.S. church must escape the strengthening riptide of sectarian conflict and re-establish trust between universities and the hierarchy.
Faith in Focus
Why I can’t keep Romero at a safe distance
Roger Bergman relates his experience of Óscar Romero, a model of grace in the midst of desolation from Bergman’s personal life to his Creighton University classroom.
Books
Loves Beginning
Many authors have addressed the tricky subject of forgiveness The 2007 book Amish Grace How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy offered a particularly insightful account of how the Amish forgave the gunman who shot 10 schoolgirls in Nickel Mines Pa Now Paula Huston has written a worthy addition to t
When Reason and Revelation Meet
James V Schall S J a well-known Jesuit political theorist who teaches at Georgetown University is the author of numerous books on political thought philosophy and education His newest book The Mind That Is Catholic is a learned insightful and stimulating collection of previously published
Table Fellowship
The church as a people of the bread: an ecclesiastical study
Art
The Dead Live: The Easter hope of Maurice Denis’s ‘Three Marys’
The Easter hope of Maurice Denis’s ‘Three Marys’
Theater
Kings and Queens: ‘Mary Stuart’ and ‘Enter the King’
Why do assorted crowned heads keep cropping up in our popular narratives?
The Word
God’s Favorites
Sixth Sunday of Easter (B), May 17, 2009
Columns
Slowing the Exodus: Catholic leaders face challenges their predecessors could not fathom.
‘Catholic leaders face challenges their predecessors could not fathom.’
Current Comment
Current Comment
The Plight of Women in Afghanistan; Susan Boyle’s Talent
Faith
Why I can’t keep Romero at a safe distance
Roger Bergman relates his experience of Óscar Romero, a model of grace in the midst of desolation from Bergman’s personal life to his Creighton University classroom.
Signs Of the Times
News Briefs
Northern Irelands Catholic bishops have met with a loyalist group in an effort to build peace… and reconciliation, said Cardinal Seán Brady.
Hopes High for Papal Trip Among Religious Groups
The visit is considered a new horizon of collaboration between Muslims and Christians, not only in Jordan, but in all the world.
Assessing Obamas First 100 Days
The Vatican newspaper, LOsservatore Romano, editorialized that President Barack Obama has operated in most areas with more caution than predicted.
Candidates for Priesthood Reflect Increasing Diversity
After years of underrepresentation, African-American Catholics have apparently regained a proportional representation among those being ordained.
Bishops Urge New President to Fight AIDS
AIDS and H.I.V. need to be our national priority,” said Archbishop Buti Tlhagale of Johannesburg
Activists Lobby U.N. on Sri Lanka
A rebel force fighting the Sri Lankan government is refusing to let noncombatants leave the combat zone.
Activists Lobby U.N. on Sri Lanka
Leading human rights advocates, led by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, have written an open letter calling on the U.N. Security Council to take immediate action to prevent atrocities in Sri Lanka. A rebel force fighting the Sri Lankan government, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil E
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