Of Many Things
Why do we remove some statues and not others?
Why is the statue of General Lee gone and the statue of General Sherman still there?
Letters
The Letters
I am so glad that the views of Catholic women are finally being studied! We cannot move forward without understanding where we are.
Your Take
What are President Trump’s best and worst policies? Our readers respond
Although many readers were dismayed by being asked to pick a “best” policy, 31 percent of respondents told America that restrictions on abortion were Mr. Trump’s best policy.
Editorials
Why churches should support community colleges
For minority, first-generation and low-income students community college can be a ticket to the middle class.
The false alarm in Hawaii is a nuclear wake-up call for everyone.
The United States must develop both better warning systems and deterrence tactics.
Short Take
What does Catholic social teaching tell us about sexual harassment?
Three reasons why sexual harassment violates Catholic social teaching
Dispatches
Infographic: Tuition trends and Catholic college facts
Half of all students at Catholic colleges identify as Catholic, and 62 percent of all students are women.
With an eye toward tradition, young adult Catholics gather with Focus to talk evangelization
Focus is a nearly 20-year-old evangelization ministry started by a layperson who was frustrated that non-Catholic student groups seemed more successful in spreading the faith on college campuses.
New Trump refugee policies could close more than 20 Catholic Charities resettlement offices
As many as 17 to 23 Catholic Charities offices around the country are now confronting the end of programs that have been successfully assimilating thousands of refugees into U.S. society for decades
The elderly and disabled were left behind in Hurricane Irma. What will happen next time?
It remains to be seen whether new efforts to address vulnerabilities faced by low-income, disabled and elderly people will result in meaningful changes.
Church in Chiapas asks for help as violence displaces thousands of indigenous farmers
Approximately 5,000 indigenous Tzotzil Mayans have been scattered in small refugee camps in the area surrounding the town of Chalchihuitán, in Mexico’s southernmost state of Chiapas. They say they were chased out of their homes by unknown gunmen after the escalation of an old land dispute.
Features
Aramaic, the language of Jesus, comes to New Jersey
The language spoken by Jesus and kept alive by Syriac Christians finds an unlikely haven in Paramus, New Jersey.
How the Catholic Church is fighting the drug war in the Philippines
The Catholic Church has slowly found its voice against a campaign of violence.
Faith and Reason
Renewing our understanding of marriage—a sacrament in peril
When is a sacramental marriage truly consummated?
Faith in Focus
How modern technology helped me teach theology to uninterested college students
I have found that it is unproductive to force theological ideas into the minds of students despite their disinterest.
Books
The secret life of refugees in Berlin
Go, Went, Gone never becomes preachy or sentimental. Instead, it is quietly bracing
The high cost of free speech on campus
Freedom of expression is close to an all-or-nothing proposition.
Teaching America’s discarded youth
Review: Michelle Kuo’s “Reading With Patrick: a Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship”
Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ: A lover of God and God’s creations
This study offers insights into Gerard Manley Hopkins, his view of the world, his mind, his interests and his relationship with God.
Film
What Martin Scorsese can teach us about our immigration debate
“Gangs of New York” reminds us that for as long as the United States has been a nation of immigrants, it has been infected by xenophobia.
Music
Banjo-pickin’ for Jesus: the bluegrass music of “The Hillbilly Thomists”
From Alpha to Omega, this is bluegrass of the highest order, our reviewer says.
Television
“Black Mirror”: a sci-fi TV show with serious moral concerns
The best “Black Mirror” stories ground themselves in a concrete human question or struggle.
Poetry
Bona Annuntiatio
we who perish like the flower in the field
The Word
What does it mean to forgive as we’ve been forgiven?
Every time we set right some wrong we have done, we come that much closer to the faith of Jesus.
How can we respond to Christ’s unique call to serve those “outside the camp?”
In healing lepers, Jesus performed an act akin to raising the dead.
Last Take
U.S.C.C.B. anti-racism committee will seek to improve the church’s role in racial relations
Twenty-five years after “Brothers and Sisters to Us,” the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops commissioned a study to discern its implementation and reception. The results of that study painted a disheartening picture of the church’s relationship with the black community.
Faith
Renewing our understanding of marriage—a sacrament in peril
When is a sacramental marriage truly consummated?
Aramaic, the language of Jesus, comes to New Jersey
The language spoken by Jesus and kept alive by Syriac Christians finds an unlikely haven in Paramus, New Jersey.
What does it mean to forgive as we’ve been forgiven?
Every time we set right some wrong we have done, we come that much closer to the faith of Jesus.
How can we respond to Christ’s unique call to serve those “outside the camp?”
In healing lepers, Jesus performed an act akin to raising the dead.
U.S.C.C.B. anti-racism committee will seek to improve the church’s role in racial relations
Twenty-five years after “Brothers and Sisters to Us,” the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops commissioned a study to discern its implementation and reception. The results of that study painted a disheartening picture of the church’s relationship with the black community.
With an eye toward tradition, young adult Catholics gather with Focus to talk evangelization
Focus is a nearly 20-year-old evangelization ministry started by a layperson who was frustrated that non-Catholic student groups seemed more successful in spreading the faith on college campuses.
What does Catholic social teaching tell us about sexual harassment?
Three reasons why sexual harassment violates Catholic social teaching
How modern technology helped me teach theology to uninterested college students
I have found that it is unproductive to force theological ideas into the minds of students despite their disinterest.
Magazine
The Letters
I am so glad that the views of Catholic women are finally being studied! We cannot move forward without understanding where we are.
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