God Makes a Comeback: An interview with The Economist’s John Micklethwait
John Micklethwait on the persistence of belief in a secular age
A Fiery Gift: A meditation on birth and the spiritual life
A meditation on birth and the spiritual life
Looking for Love: What does suffering say about God?
Encountering the problem of pain
When Priests Leave the Church: How common is Alberto Cutis journey to Protestant ministry?
Earlier this year, Father Alberto Cutié, a popular radio and television personality in Miami, found himself the subject of tabloid headlines when he was photographed relaxing on the beach with a woman who turned out to be his longtime girlfriend. Shortly afterward, he announced that he was leaving the Catholic Church to become an Episcopal…
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
The story of a late vocation
Letters
Letters
Exercise and Spirituality I much appreciated Maurice Timothy Reidy’s latest Of Many Things column (9/14). I developed the cycling addiction this past summer. A doctor I heard speak recently described exercise, including cycling, as “meditation in action.” Cycling is an enjoyable wa
Editorials
Siege Mentality
A report on Israeli conduct in Gaza offers a depressing collection of cautionary tales.
Faith in Focus
A Life Freely Given: The ministry of a Catholic sister and physician
The ministry of a Catholic sister and physician
Books
Along Comes Mary
Eamon Duffy on Mary Stuart, reviewed
Craving the Transcendent
Somehow it seems fitting that Karen Armstrong should make the case for God Her earlier works establish her gift for displaying the vast historical range of a topic with little distortion Here she pursues the human quest for God from the evidence of the cave painters of 30 000 B C E to the musings
An In-between Creature
Respect human dignity rdquo is a common imperative in ethics yet this imperative is filled with ambiguity On the one hand we say that strong paternalism violates the dignity of the patient On the other hand we say that nothing we do can ever deprive another person of their dignity Can we have
A Master’s Wisdom
We often use the word wise to mean ldquo insightful rdquo or ldquo graceful rdquo or ldquo shrewd rdquo or even ldquo humble rdquo Philip Levine rsquo s newest just-published poetry collection his 20th not even counting chapbooks is wise in a more fundamental truer way it is knowing
The Bishop’s Tale
A memoir of an American archbishop
Streets of Philadelphia
Irish fathers are a disturbingly flawed group.
Daring Deo
Genocide has claimed hundreds of thousands of African lives in recent decades In his ambitious new book Tracy Kidder the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer takes readers into the heart of that awful chapter in human history through the eyes of a Burundian medical student named Deogratias mdash known
After Alice: The emergence of a new kind of Catholic novel
With Alice McDermott, a new and different kind of Catholic novel has appeared.
Television
Manhattan Gothic: Mad Men and the shock of recognition
Like Flannery O’Connor, “Mad Men” radically resets a situation so that viewers see themselves from a previously unknown vantage point.
Poetry
Marys Cat: for Lucien
he came
The Word
Just One Thing
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), Oct. 11, 2009
Catholic Book Club
September/October Selection
Scholar, eco-theologian, priest, teacher, Thomas Berry established the History of Religions Program at Fordham University and, with Wm. Theodore de Bary, founded the Oriental Thought and Religion Seminar at Columbia University. Before his death this year he spent the better part of five decades studying, writing about and lecturing on the intersection of the spiritual…
Columns
Classrooms for Peace
Are we serving the poor as they seek to educate themselves?
Current Comment
Current Comment
Natural Treasures at Risk; Norman Borlaug, RIP
Signs Of the Times
Vatican Approves Catechism Revision
The Vatican has approved a small change in the U.S. Catholic Catechism for Adults clarifying teaching about God’s covenant with the Jewish people.
News Briefs
Maria Odom, an immigration attorney in Georgia, has been named executive director of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network.
Climate Change Delegation Urges Attention to Poor
“Climate change is another situation where the poor of the world are being made to suffe because of the habits of the first world,” said Cardinal Keith O’Brien of Scotland.
Survey Examines Profiles of Religious Activists
A groundbreaking survey of “religious activists” has found that activists on both ends of the political spectrum are deeply religious.
Pope Prays for Afghan Troops and Civilians
Pope Benedict XVI said that he was deeply saddened to hear of the roadside bombing that killed 10 Afghan civilians and six Italian soldiers.
North Africans Critique Synod Paper
Catholics in North Africa say that the Vatican does not seem to recognize that they face different challenges than sub-Saharan Africa.
Bishop Seeks End To Honduran Crisis
Bishop Luis Santos Villeda said that dialogue is important to avoid the possibility of civil war.
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