Restoring the pillars of Catholic education
Assessing the “diseases” of leadership at our Catholic universities
The Merciful Father: Always ready to greet a prodigal son
Always ready to greet a prodigal son
Pope Francis connects the pastoral and theological in a ‘new way of being church.’
The pope’s aim is to establish a whole new way of being church.
Of Many Things
Looking for the ‘real’ America
Who is the “our” in “we are going to take our country back?”
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Editors: Is the U.S.-Saudi relationship truly viable? Should it be?
The Saudis’ latest executions threaten to undermine the Syrian peace talks in Geneva.
Faith in Focus
Living as a Muslim at a Catholic college
We are able to borrow traditions from other religions without compromising our own. This insight defined my interfaith journey as a Muslim at a Catholic college.
Books
When Peace Seemed Plausible
‘Killing a King,’ by Dan Ephron
The End of Moral Education
‘The Graduate School Mess,’ by Leonard Cassuto
A Change in Direction
‘The Francis Effect,’ by John Gehring
Television
Alternate Reality: The dystopian world of ‘The Man in the High Castle’
The dystopian world of ‘The Man in the High Castle’
The Word
God Meets Us
“Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!” (Lk 5:8)
Columns
Lessons from Daniel Berrigan’s F.B.I. evasion
From the moment Daniel Berrigan took the stage at Cornell University on April 17, 1970, he and everyone else there knew he would be arrested.
Current Comment
Volunteering is good for your health
There is growing evidence that acts of service can benefit physical health.
Unions should rethink political strategy in light of pending SCOTUS decision
Despite a historic collapse in the private sector, public sector union labor remains strong, representing about 36 percent of the workforce.
Jesuit university students vote to raise their own tuition to support undocumented peers
Last year, undergraduate students at Loyola University Chicago voted to raise their own student fees by $2.50 per semester to create a scholarship fund for undocumented immigrant undergraduate students. In December, the university’s board of trustees voted to approve this fund, to be called th
Philosopher's Notebook
Ethics of Curiosity
The annual convention of the American Philosophical Association could rarely be described as a festive affair. Thousands of anxious philosophy professors descend on a hotel to give papers on obscure topics as graduate students grimly run the gantlet of hiring committees in a windowless ballroom tryi
Signs Of the Times
End Deportations?
Two U.S. bishops wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson seeking an end to deportation raids that rounded up more than 120 Central American immigrants early in the new year. “We disagree with the underlying rationale behind this action: that sending children and families back to the d
News Briefs
The Islamic extremist group Boko Haram killed 16 people in Nigeria on Dec. 25, continuing a gruesome tradition of village massacres on Christmas Day. • Delivering America Media’s John Courtney Murray lecture in New York on Jan. 12, Rabbi Dan Polish described 1965’s “Nostra Aet
New Strategies to Support Mothers
As a mother of six, Leah Jacobson is watching other parents try to raise children in a society that no longer supports sisterhood among mothers. And that’s a shame, said the founder and president of the Guiding Star Project, a Duluth-based organization seeking to combine under one roof a varie
Euthanasia Challenged
Belgium is embroiled in a religious freedom controversy after the new head of the country’s Roman Catholic Church demanded that church-run hospitals and nursing homes have the right to refuse to euthanize their patients. Euthanasia for terminally ill adults was legalized in Belgium in 2002 and
Archbishop Cupich: Confront Gun Violence
Archbishop Cupich is calling for a ban on assault weapons, stricter background checks
Supreme Court Stops Florida Death Penalty
The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 12 said the state of Florida’s death penalty system is unconstitutional because it allows judges, rather than juries, to determine whether a convicted criminal should be given a death sentence. Michael B. Sheedy, executive director of the Florida Conference of Ca
Ten States Where Christians Were Most Persecuted in 2015
With North Korea leading the way and Islamic extremism rapidly expanding, 2015 was the “worst year in modern history for Christian persecution,” according to Open Doors’ 2016 World Watch List, a ranking of the 50 most dangerous places in the world to be a Christian. Iraq was r
Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis as Interreligious Leader
Pope Francis is convinced that America can make an important contribution to the resolution of many of the world’s problems through an interreligious dialogue that involves not just words, but also actions.
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