Zero Tolerance: Why Catholics must condemn anti-gay violence
The recent assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the Family has brought renewed attention to Catholic approaches to gay and lesbian persons. During the synod, church leaders discussed pastoral and theological perspectives regarding the place of homosexual persons in the church, and church teaching vis
Family in Focus: How do we continue the conversation started by the synod?
America’s editorial on the recently concluded Synod of Bishops on the Family rightly speaks of “a remarkable two-week period” (“Go in Peace,” 11/10). Anyone who followed the synod knows that it was characterized by passionate debate and even, in some instances, disagree
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Lessons from Notre Dame for discussions about the family in an increasing secular era.
Letters
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Giving ThanksRe “Retiring With Dignity,” Mary Ann Walsh, R.S.M. (10/17): Sister Mary Ann couldn’t be more correct in her description of complex decisions facing congregations of men and women religious today. The National Religious Retirement Office provides significant financial a
Editorials
Impunity in Honduras
Campesinos agitating for land rights, journalists and human rights activists face violence and intimidation.
Faith in Focus
Everyday Sacraments: Final lessons of love
Each day after her mother’s fall had its attendant rituals, including an offering of key lime pie.
Books
From Argentina with Love
Three biographies of Pope Francis
The Death Railroad
‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North,’ by Richard Flanagan
Art
A Spiritual Perspective: Celebrating El Greco
Celebrating El Greco
The Word
Waiting on Hope
Christians read the Old Testament today understandably in light of Christ rsquo s fulfillment of the promises and prophecies found there It is a simple thing to do since the early church read the Old Testament in the context of Jesus rsquo incarnation and teaching and the experience of Easter a
Fulfillment of Hope
The fulfillment of hope especially divine hope fundamental hope does not rest on intricately calculated human plans in which we chart the future according to algorithms that never vary and on the basis of mathematical certainty await the fulfillment of our calculations Perhaps this works for 40
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Life’s Second Half
Three spiritual books on aging are less about growing old than growing up.
Current Comment
Current Comment
There’s been startling growth in the number the nation’s homeless children in recent years.
Of Other Things
Love and Death in New Jersey
Richard Ford has never written a frivolous word. So the title of his latest four related novellas, Let Me Be Frank With You (Harper Collins), should not be dismissed. It is the fourth of the Frank Bascombe series, about a sportswriter turned real estate agent. Beginning with The Sportswriter (1986),
Signs Of the Times
Obama Proposal Protects Millions
President Obama’s plan to essentially freeze most deportations of people without documentation in the United States would protect as many as 4.4 million people and their families. “Mass amnesty would be unfair,” the president said in a televised speech to the nation on Nov. 20. &ld
Holy Land Violence
After an early morning attack on a synagogue left four Israelis dead and eight injured on Nov. 18, the Latin Patriarch, Fouad Twal, called for an end to all violence in the Holy Land. “We are praying and waiting. We are sad,” said Patriarch Twal. “We must, all people of responsibil
Pope Francis: Create Jobs, Not Weapons
The Catholic Church calls for the creation of job opportunities and the recognition of the dignity of the poor, not simply for more handouts or expanded government welfare programs, Pope Francis said in a video message played on Nov. 20 at the Italian church’s Festival of Catholic Social Teach
An Abortion Ban Challenged
El Salvador’s pro-life culture made it easy to codify church teaching into law.
Working for Peace in Ferguson As Violence Erupts Anew
As a young seminarian in the 1960s, the Rev. Robert Rosebrough marched for civil rights. For most of his 46 years as a priest, he has worked in inner-city parishes. His parish, Blessed Teresa of Calcutta is in Ferguson, Mo., a short distance from where a white police officer shot an unarmed African
News Briefs
Church officials in Goa, India, were expecting more than five million pilgrims for the once-a-decade exposition of the body of St Francis Xavier on Nov. 22. • While officials from the Kenyan government and bishops’ conference met on Nov. 19, Kenya’s Catholic bishops continued to urg
Vatican Dispatch
Call to Conversion
Pope Francis’ call has clearly disturbed some cardinals and a number bishops.
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