The Other America: The drama in Honduras depicts Central America’s continuing miseries.
Central America is still wrestling with the institutional backwardness and epic inequality that led to the conflicts of the 1980s.
God Is Ready: Are you?
Are you?
Goodwill Offering: After my father’s death, his socks and shirts seemed sacred.
After my father's death, his shirts and socks seemed sacred.
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Remembering John W. Donohue, S.J., a former editor who somehow combined austerity with humility and humor.
Letters
Letters
Justifiable Anger Re “Bishops Respond to Attacks on John Carr” (Signs of the Times, 2/22): Maybe I should not write anything because I am too angry right now at the person or persons who would do this to John Carr. He has kept the faith. I just hope he hasn’t finished the course. H
Editorials
Behind Closed Doors
Domestic violence in the United States is rising, and the recession may be partly to blame.
Ideas
Friendly Persuasion: Lessons on social change, from Newman to ‘Juno’
How does a culture change its mind? What makes an entire people repudiate a position once held with blithe certainty?
Television
Snark Attack: Television and criticism in an age of nihilism
Snark is the final frontier for the age of irony, the last word for a generation that prides itself on having the last word.
The Word
Claiming Our Inheritance
Fourth Sunday of Lent (C), March 14, 2010
Columns
The Defense Dilemma
Military spending is much higher than most Americans are aware.
Culture
Intersections: Exploring where Judaism and Christianity meet
Books exploring where Judaism and Christianity meet
Current Comment
Current Comment
The Unsweetened Truth; Turtles at Risk; Swift-Boating the Church?
Signs Of the Times
U.S. Must Get Religion
A new report says the United States must broaden its view of the role of religion in other countries beyond counterterrorism strategies.
Advocates Seek to End Market Gambling With Food Prices
“We can’t let our world food and energy prices be determined by the whims of investors,” said Maryknoll’s David Kane.
Catholic Leaders Urge Health Care Reform
“The American people are tired of partisan bickering and want lawmakers to find common ground,” said Sister Carol Keehan of the Catholic Health Association.
Earthquake Prompts Haitian Debt Relief
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announced that the United States would work to see that Haiti’s indebtedness was forgiven.
NATO Apologizes for Afghan Civilian Deaths
The apologies reflect General Stanley McChrystal’s new strategy that prioritizes winning over the civilian population.
News Briefs
Bishop Peter Kihara Kariuki of drought-afflicted Marsabit, Kenya, said his diocese has been struggling with the “deadly effects of global warming for years now.”
Politics
Faith
Culture
Vatican
Scripture
Podcasts