Safer Now?: Balancing privacy and security after the Boston bombings
The two bomb blasts near the Boston Marathon’s finish line last April were the most significant acts of terrorism on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001. Other contemporary terror attacks claimed more lives than the three lost in Boston (the shooting by Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood in 2009 killed
Celebrating Sisters: The launch of National Catholic Sisters Week
Whenever Tia Clifford and her five college housemates catch one another getting worked up—dwelling on the past or stressing about the future—they quote the mantra of a Catholic sister on campus, abbreviated and turned into a Twitter hashtag, “#BWYFA!”The acronym, which they p
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Of Many Things
I have a hard time believing that the political paralysis is in anybody’s real interest.
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Intersex RealityRe “When the Law Is a Crime” (Editorial, 3/10): In Jesus Christ there is no male or female (sexism), no Greek or Jew (ethnocentrism or religious sectarianism), no slave or free (classism) because all are one in Jesus Christ.There are countless species of life on earth in
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Healing Moral Wounds
5,000 deaths, $6 trillion. But there’s still another cost to U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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From the Edge
More people now die in the United States by suicide than in automobile accidents There were 28 364 deaths by suicide in 2010 the most recent year for which data are available and according to the U S Centers for Disease Control the rate is rising particularly among middle-aged adults Jennife
Unsettled
Israeli journalist Ari Shavit’s ‘My Promised Land’ offers a compelling, soul-searching mix of history, politics, culture and military strategy.
Out of the Trenches
Tim Kendall’s anthology, ‘Poetry of the First World War’
Theater
A Good Fight : L.B.J. campaigns for civil rights in ‘All the Way.’
L.B.J. campaigns for civil rights in ‘All the Way.’ A review from theater critic Rob Weinert-Kendt.
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Discovery
You can’t say hand without picturing either a rightor a left. You can’t think moon withoutseeing it in one of its phases.When the arrowheads riseto the surface after the winter rainsyou can’t say again. This is a first discovery for these individual flints.The arrowheads have
The Word
Risen in History
The modern historical Jesus enterprise stumbled from the beginning on data it found hard to accept the early Christians claimed that Jesus after being put to death by crucifixion rose from the dead Peter is recorded saying ldquo They put him to death by hanging him on a tree but God raised hi
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Schooling Teachers
Today’s education establishment is determined to shake off the mantel of mediocrity.
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Current Comment
By the end of 2016, a Catholic church will rise in the sands of the Muslim world.
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Gathering Paradise
The best way to get to know a writer you love is to visit his or her home.
Signs Of the Times
Challenge to Contraception Mandate
Oral arguments in two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court on March 25 focused on whether for-profit corporations have religious grounds to object to the new health care law’s requirement that most employers provide contraceptive coverage in their employee health plans. Oral arguments lasted fo
Real Change on Global Abuse Policies?
The clerical abuse survivor nominated by Pope Francis to sit on the new Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors said the commission needs to achieve concrete change in order to “show other survivors that the church is going to get it right.” Marie Collins, who as a 13-year-old
News Briefs
Noting that for Christians “the death penalty can never be the way to solve problems,” the Coptic Catholic bishop of Assiut, Kyrillos William, spoke out against death sentences handed down by an Egyptian court against more than 500 members of the Muslim Brotherhood. • The British go
Pope and President Exchange Views/Gifts in First Meeting
One man stepped into his new role promising change but has struggled to deliver it; the other, considered a “safe” choice by the men who elected him, turned out to be an effortless instigator of change from the moment he stepped onto a Vatican balcony, greeting the world with a humble re
Wisdom in New Philippine Peace Deal
Cardinal Quevedo praised the determination of negotiators for the rebels and government.
Solidarity Urged for World Hunger Fight
“Since the end of the Second World War, the availability of food per person has increased by more than 40 percent,” Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, said, addressing the 25th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on M
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