Of Many Things
Of Many Things
A new exhibit highlights the achievements of women religious in America.
Letters
Letters
The Loneliness of All Saints Robert Ellsberg’s “Dorothy in Love” (11/15) reminded me of a day in high school in the 1950s when a teacher talked about Dorothy Day in the Newman Club. We visited her New York office. I have been an admirer of this remarkable laywoman ever since. These
Editorials
Christmas Present
How can we who belong to the body of Christ extend the grace of the Incarnation?
Faith in Focus
Inventive Love: St. Vincent de Paul’s lifetime of service among the poor
“Love is inventive, even to infinity,” St. Vincent told his followers. He also showed them what such inventiveness meant.
Christmas in Paradise: A lesson in flowers
A lesson in flowers
Books
Connections
Seamus Heaney's new boom of poems reveals the “marvelous as he has known it.”
Modern Mythmaking
With its wild wordplay and serious ideas, Salman Rushie’s latest work of fantasy is hardly tween-lit.
Art
The First Nol: A meditation on three dazzling mosaics
A meditation on Marko Rupnik’s mosaics at Sacred Heart University chapel in Connecticut.
Film
Corps de Ballet: ‘Black Swan’ chronicles a dancer’s quest for perfection
‘Black Swan’: horror movie, camp classic or balletomane’s dream?
Poetry
Madonna
She’s absorbed in the gift she holds,
Columns
Future Shock
Cataclysm is not God’s dream for creation.
Current Comment
Current Comment
Welcome to the Cafeteria; Retrieving Stolen Art; Out of the Woods?
Faith
Inventive Love: St. Vincent de Paul’s lifetime of service among the poor
“Love is inventive, even to infinity,” St. Vincent told his followers. He also showed them what such inventiveness meant.
Signs Of the Times
Canadian Bishops’ Criticism Rejected
A Canadian official has fired back at the country’s bishops after they criticized his recently introduced bill against human smuggling.
After Visitation, Reconciliation
Rome must acknowledge the “depth of anger and hurt” provoked by the apostolic visitation of American nuns, a Vatican official said.
News Briefs
The Pax Christi International Peace Award for 2010 was given on Dec. 8 to Louis Sako,the Chaldean archbishop of Kirkuk, Iraq.
Future Shock
Growing up, I had many evangelical friends who were preoccupied with an imminent Second Coming of Christ. I could never get on board with this apocalyptic worldview—I think I worried too much about experiencing a frightening moment, when I realized that the truly faithful had been raptured awa
Vatican Fires Back at Beijing Acts
The Vatican said the recent election of new church leaders by government-controlled Catholic groups in China have “unilaterally damaged” hopes of improved relations.
DREAM Act Fails to Pass 111th Congress; Back in 112th?
The Senate’s inability to overcome a threatened filibuster Dec. 18 scuttled passage of the DREAM Act.
Pope Says Church Must Repent, Repair Damage
In response to the “unimaginable” scandal of clerical sex abuse against minors, the church must do everything possible to rectify the injustices suffered by victims of sex abuse.
Benedict: Religious Freedom Promotes Peace
Infringements on the freedom of religion threaten peace worldwide as well as stifle authentic human development, the pope said.
Bethlehem a Star in 2010 Tourism
For the first time in years, shop owners and tourist industry workers in the birthplace of Christ are optimistic and have confidence in the economy. For most, 2010 was the best year for business in a decade
U.S.C.C.B. Agenda Takes Flight as Session Ends
“We’re batting a thousand” on the issues that the bishops have been supporting in recent months, said Kathy Saile.
Surviving the Lord’s Resistance Army in S. Sudan
The story of one abducted child who was forced by L.R.A. commanders to kill other children.
Catholics in Congress
The decrease in the number of Catholics in the House of Representatives will not be as great as expected because of the election of 33 new Catholic Republicans.
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Faith
Culture
Vatican
Scripture
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