What Would Newman Say?: An imaginary monologue from the newly beatified cardinal
Most people have heard about my conversion to Catholicism in 1845, and of course that was a pivotal moment in my life. But it was more concerned with church than with faith. I would put my conversion to faith much earlier, in the autumn of 1816 when a period of crisis and breakthrough gave me…
Refashioning Catholic Imagination: Newman’s writings offer a frame-work for a new way of thinking.
Examining the creative principles that animate Newman's vision and guide his practice
A Conspiracy of Bishops and Faithful: Reading Newman’s ‘On Consulting the Faithful’ today.
Beatified this month, Cardinal Newman, and his appeal to value the laity, remain relevant.
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Reflecting on Dorothy Day’s spiritual life has helped me navigate my own.
Letters
Letters
Relax, They Won’t Hurt I have just perused the changes referred to in “Musicians Prepare for Coming Changes in Mass Text” (8/2). They are very minor. They seem to reflect a return to translations that older members might remember from the joint Latin-English missals. In this respec
Editorials
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul
As the Senate scrambles to find money to bolster Medicare, funding cuts drive up food insecurity.
Books
The Judgment of History
In 1929 shortly before he was to leave Germany to become cardinal secretary of state the then papal nuncio and future pontiff Eugenio Pacelli expressed his apprehension about Hitler ldquo This man is completely obsessed rdquo he said ldquo All that is not of use to him he destroys all th
True Confessions
A few weeks ago I spent a muggy evening on my front porch ruminating: I wondered how it was that in a lifetime of reading I had seldom encountered a book whose primary character was a mother.
A World of Faith
The proximity of religious difference in our globalized world raises new tasks for Christians As our workplaces schools and communities are increasingly multireligious it rsquo s a good idea to have some understanding of the faiths our neighbors profess But as this volume suggests our interreli
Art
God’s Architect: The Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona
In the Basilicia of the Sagrada Familia, Antoni Gaudí brought the divine into the heart of secular Western Europe.
The Word
The Timely Vision
Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (C), Oct. 3, 2010
Columns
Horse Sense: Why not a future in which horses and high-speed rail exist side by side?
Building an ecologically stable future requires creativity and willingness to sacrifice.
Current Comment
Current Comment
Disappearing Forests; Bad Harvest; Unqualified Failure
Signs Of the Times
Stimulus Too Little, Too Late?
The increase in poverty rates in 2009 was the second-largest year-to-year uptick since 2004.
Bishops Pledge Response to Sexual Abuse by Clergy
Belgian bishops offer new “healing initiatives” and a promise to work with authorities to prevent abuse and expose past cases.
Failure to Break Cycles Of Poverty
Recent report shows Latin America as the most unequal distributor of income in the world.
Aussies Are Top Donors
Donating over $700 million a year to international aid agencies, Australia places first in the World Giving Index.
Catholics in Vietnam Defy Government
“We fear nothing because we gather to pray for ourselves to live better lives and for our relatives on their death anniversaries…”
News Briefs
The Catholic aid agency Caritas appealed on Sept. 7 for food and clothing for the victims of torrential rains in Guatemala.
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Faith
Culture
Vatican
Scripture
Podcasts