Will Democracy Bloom?: A closer look at Arab Spring
A closer look at Arab Spring
Mending Broken Britain
The government is now committed to tackling both the financial deficit and the “social deficit.”
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Searching for the invisible suburban casualties of the Great Recession.
Letters
Letters
How to Become Irrelevant In response to Cardinal Donald Wuerl’s “A New Relationship” (9/26): The church has followed for centuries the axiom that theology is fides quaerens intellectum (faith seeking understanding)—faith being the catechetical part, understanding the theologi
Editorials
Save the Altar Girls
Women must be welcomed into every service and leadership role in the church.
Film
Struggling with Each Other: Believers, Doubters and ‘Higher Ground’
‘Higher Ground’ shows why when you have faith, it is difficult to understand doubt—and vice versa.
Television
How Dry We Were: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick revisit Prohibition
The thirteen years of Prohibition provided a case study in unintended consequences.
Poetry
March 21st
Where is a measured clarity?
The Word
To Pay or Not to Pay
Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), Oct. 16, 2011
Columns
True Vocations
Lay ministers continue their work to meet the needs of God’s people.
Culture
St. Jude Among the Brambles
The spiritual fruit of Christina Rossetti
Current Comment
Current Comment
Fewer Puffs; Catechesis and Theology; Switch and Bait
Signs Of the Times
News Briefs
Nobel Peace Price-winner Wangari Maatthai, founder of the Greenbelt Movement, which planted more than 30 million trees in Kenya, died on Sept. 25.
Pope Promotes ‘Unworldly’ But Open Church
On his first state visit to his German homeland, Pope Benedict XVI warned that godlessness and religious indifference were undermining the moral foundations of society.
Jesuits Urged to Protect Creation
“Healing a Broken World” calls on Jesuits and their collaborators to “cast a grateful look on creation, letting our heart be touched by its wounded reality.”
Where U.S. and Iran Find Common Ground
Perhaps in response to social unrest, executions in Iran have spiked this year, with more than 320 tallied by the end of June.
After End of ‘Don’t Ask,’ Chaplains Uneasy
Chaplains from faiths morally opposed to homosexual behavior fear they will be “marginalized and even punished” for being true to their faith.
Vatican Supports Two-State Solution
A Vatican representative called for “courageous decisions” after Palestinian leaders appealed for statehood.
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Culture
Vatican
Scripture
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