Unnatural Gas: The spiritual implications of fracking
The spiritual implications of fracking
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Wellfleet’s outer beach is just about an hour’s drive from my boyhood home on Cape Cod. The spot is well known for a steep, 50-foot sand cliff that rises behind it, topped by a gently sloping upland that affords a graceful vista of the Atlantic, exactly the sort of spot that prompted Hen
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Not ConvincedIn “Beyond the Fortnight” (7/1), Archbishop William E. Lori addresses some issues quite clearly. I appreciate that. However, there are numerous issues that he has not made so clear for me to understand.For example, Archbishop Lori demands that companies and individuals recei
Editorials
A Call for Compassion
Pope Francis’ witness on immigration is timely for Americans as reform hangs in the balance.
Ideas
Eating the Apple: On being baptized into a technological religion
The dogmatic thinking that convinced us that a phone could (should!) be a sheer piece of glass, that a swipe of a finger on a screen should feel like moving a real object, and that the Internet should be in our pockets has opened up tremendous possibilities.
Books
Race Still Matters
‘Wounds That Would Not Heal’ by Russell Nieli
Rethinking East and West
‘Ever Ancient, Ever New’ by John R. Quinn
The Word
The City of the Living God
Most readers of this column have been in a position of authority at some time I rsquo m sure and some of us this writer included enjoy a constancy of authority because of education ordination position or wealth Though we might not speak of it often even quietly to ourselves it is a delight
Do the Right Thing
The common understanding of the relationship between Onesimus and Philemon in Paul rsquo s letter to Philemon is that Onesimus was a slave of Philemon Though it remains a debated issue Onesimus had either run away from Philemon or had been sent by him to render service to Paul while he was impriso
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Save Our Sisters
For me, the tipping point in my awareness of the crisis facing women religious came by way of Twitter and a phone call.The tweet alerted me to an alarming news item about the Sisters of St. Joseph of Springfield, Mass. An article headlined “Sisters of St. Joseph Face Dire Financial Situation W
Good Sports
Everyone expected a short homily—and we got it. My childhood priest knew the Mass needed to finish on time since everyone was about to rush to the next liturgical rite: game day in Green Bay, Wis. Growing up 20 miles south of Titletown, U.S.A., the nickname for the city of 104,000 whose famous
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Japan’s Witness; Doing God’s Work; Turning Point in Congo?
Faith
Rethinking East and West
‘Ever Ancient, Ever New’ by John R. Quinn
Signs Of the Times
Almost 15,000 Deacons Active in U.S. Church
The number of permanent deacons in the Catholic Church in the United States continues to rise, according to a national survey conducted by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, at Georgetown University. Nationally there are more than 18,000 deacons, about 3,000 of them retired. Many per
Stakes Are High in Revival Of Israeli/Palestinian Negotiations
Secretary of State John Kerry and the U.S. State Department significantly raised the bar for both the ambitions and the expectations for upcoming negotiations between West Bank Palestinians and the State of Israel. One wild card in the new discussions, which have set the laudable but so far elusive
News Briefs
Italy’s foreign minister, Emma Bonino, told reporters on Aug. 6 that “it seems” the Italian Jesuit priest Paolo Dall’Oglio, missing more than a week in Syria, “has been kidnapped by…a local version of Al Qaeda.” • The attorney Frances X. Hogan, Jane Marie K
Cardinal Condemns Sri Lanka Shooting
Cardinal Albert Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo, Sri Lanka, expressed “shock and distress,” accusing the Sri Lankan military of storming a Catholic church and firing on those inside. They had sought refuge in the church after a protest over the pollution of a local water source was violently
Persistent Unemployment an Affront to Human Dignity
Millions of workers are being denied honor and respect because of lack of jobs.
Vatican Toughens Financial Controls
As part of the Vatican’s ongoing efforts to ensure that all its financial activity complies with international standards, particularly those aimed at preventing money laundering and possible financing of terrorism, Pope Francis has expanded the role and the reach of the Vatican’s Financi
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