Getting Out of Oil: Catholic universities can make a difference through divestment.
Catholic colleges and universities have a long and storied history of providing full scholarships and affordable higher education to low income, minority and immigrant students. In addition, they continue to fulfill their mission to develop the whole person (cura personalis) by linking liberal arts
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
A meditation on Holy Saturday from an unknown homilist of the second century
Editorials
As the Deer Longs
“As the deer longs for streams of water,” so we feel for the coming of Christ.
Faith in Focus
All Things Dead, Alive: One family’s journey to Pascha
After a difficult year, one family’s journey to Pascha.
After the Resurrection: An Ignatian meditation
St. Ignatius suggests that in prayer we contemplate Jesus appearing after his resurrection first to the Virgin Mary. He explains: “Though this is not mentioned explicitly in Scripture, it must be considered as stated when Scripture says that he appeared to many others.” The meditation th
The Ecological Examen: Entering a new world of Ignatian contemplation
These same spiritual tools can be used to cultivate ecological sensitivity and a heightened awareness of God’s immanence in the natural world.
Books
Pulling No Punches
‘A Double Life,’ J. Michael Lennon’s biography of Norman Mailer
Corporate Classrooms
Historian of education Diane Ravitch’s ‘Reign of Error’
Heart to Heart
Edward Short’s ‘Newman and His Family’
The Costs of Belief
Robert Stone’s ‘Death of the Black-Haired Girl’
Art
A Swedish Master: An American gallery revisits the work of Anders Zorn
The sumptuous colors, dazzling brushwork and sheer drama in the paintings of Anders Zorn (1860-1920) earned the Swedish artist fortune and fame during the Gilded Age. But Zorn’s work and name gradually fell into obscurity outside Sweden. As a result, his brilliant body of work has not been sho
Poetry
Martyrdom Is for the Young
Ursula, shot dead, marched the ten thousandvirgins, just walked them! with the pope in towto say she could or to prove maybe thatthe purity of youth was worth the shockof Huns beheading them, each and everyone, as God’s synchronicity seems tobargain lives away in those old stories, leavin
The Word
Radical Witness
Shortly after the ascension the number of believers in Jerusalem was about 120 according to Acts 1 15 Whether the number is exact or symbolic of a restored Israel the church started small The crowds who pressed around Jesus in Galilee and greeted him during his triumphant entry into Jerusalem we
Columns
To an Athlete Dying Young
The inspiring NCAA run of Hank “The Bank” Gathers and the 1990 Loyola Marymount Lions.
Current Comment
Current Comment
Turkey’s troubles are worrisome for those looking for models of authority in the region.
Faith
The Ecological Examen: Entering a new world of Ignatian contemplation
These same spiritual tools can be used to cultivate ecological sensitivity and a heightened awareness of God’s immanence in the natural world.
Of Other Things
Tales of a T-Shirt
The T-shirt has become a defining symbol of our global, interconnected world and church.
Signs Of the Times
News Briefs
Frans van der Lugt, a 75-year-old Dutch Jesuit who refused to leave war-torn Syria, was beaten by armed men and killed with two bullets to the head, according to a message sent from the Jesuits’ Middle East Province to the Jesuit headquarters in Rome on April 7. • Linda LeMura, named pres
U.S. Bishops at Mexico Border Push Mercy for Migrants
While comprehensive immigration reform remains stalled in Congress, members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops joined residents, migrants and advocates from both sides of the U.S./Mexico border in Nogales, Ariz., on April 1. There they celebrated Mass together, remembering thousands of migra
Abuse Allegations Down in 2013
The number of allegations of sexual abuse by clergy declined in 2013, while diocesan spending on child protection programs increased under the U.S. Catholic Church’s “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People,” according to a church-sponsored annual audit. Dioceses an
Lebanon Reaches Grim Milestone
The number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon passed the one million mark on April 3.
Bishops Slam Maduro
In a hard-hitting statement released on April 2, Venezuela’s Roman Catholic Church accused President Nicolas Maduro’s government of “totalitarian” tendencies and “brutal repression” of demonstrators during two months of political unrest that has resulted in the de
Religious Diversity Highest in Asia
Pew researchers report that six of the world’s 12 nations with a “very high degree” of religious diversity can be found in the Asia-Pacific region—Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam, South Korea, China and Hong Kong; five are in sub-Saharan Africa—Guinea-Bissau, Togo, Ivory Coa
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