Of Many Things
Of Many Things
When it comes to building a just society for the poor, the question is simply “What works?”
Letters
Reply All
A Head Start“Saving the Humanities,” by Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. (12/23), addresses a most important topic. Many of the reports cited expand the discussion to secondary education, and one report discusses the whole educational continuum. To even start to develop oneself into a fully educ
Editorials
Dignity of the Disabled
Two of the most stirring images of the Pope Francis center on a person with a disability.
Faith in Focus
Making Room: Learning to love my neighbor in New York
Managing Editor Kerry Weber on committing to a lifestyle—and lifetime—of mercy.
Books
Rites of Resistance
Mary Oliver in her poem ldquo The Morning Paper rdquo wants to know ldquo What keeps us from falling down our faces to the ground ashamed ashamed rdquo after we read through countless news stories of ldquo disasters the unbelievable yet approved decisions rdquo One way of both groundin
Theater
Through a Glass Darkly: Reviving Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie first appeared on Broadway in 1945, beginning what would be a wave of great American plays about troubled families. Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons” and “Death of a Salesman,” William Inge’s “Picnic,” Eugene
The Word
A Light for All
The Presentation of the Lord places us in the midst of the Law of Moses that governed the sacrifices due for the purification of a mother following the birth of a male child Lv 12 1 ndash 8 and the regulations concerning the consecration of a firstborn male child Ex 13 1 ndash 2 13…
Leaving Home
The Gospel of Matthew sets the beginning of Jesus rsquo ministry in a particular historical context Jesus began his mission only after the arrest of John the Baptist It was time But in moving from his home in Nazareth to Capernaum in the ancient territory of Naphtali Matthew also sets Jesus rs
Columns
Daring Peace
Dan Horan, OFM, reflects on Mandela’s complex relationship to nonviolence and peacemaking.
Current Comment
Current Comment
Philippine government and Muslim rebels take a step toward peace with power-sharing agreement.
Faith
The Bible Reborn: Rediscovering the riches of Scripture
A revolution has taken place in the Roman Catholic Church’s understanding of the Bible.
Of Other Things
Goodbye to the Catholic Writer?
Depicting belief – believably – in a literary culture that views religion as a relic of the past.
Signs Of the Times
Violence Engulfs South Sudan and Central Africa
United Nations peacekeepers and officials struggled to contain two ongoing crises in Africa as the New Year began. Hastily arranged peace talks to end the sudden conflict in South Sudan began in Ethiopia as the world’s newest nation sank deeper into a de facto civil war. Meanwhile, in the neig
Budget Busters?
The U.S. public shows little appetite for making the spending cuts often discussed as part of a “grand bargain” on the federal budget, according to a national survey by the Pew Research Center conducted in December 2013. The survey found that majorities say it is more important to mainta
22 Pastoral Workers Killed in 2013
Fides, the Information service of the Pontifical Mission Societies, reports that 22 pastoral care workers were killed worldwide in 2013, almost double the number who were killed the year before. For the fifth consecutive year, Latin America had the highest number of such deaths. In 2013, 19 priests,
News Briefs
In the first nine-and-a-half months of Pope Francis’ pontificate, more than 6.6 million people participated in papal events at the Vatican—three times the number who visited during all of 2012. • Antonios Aziz Mina, the Coptic Catholic bishop of Giza, Egypt, said terrorist attacks w
Vatican: Pope Francis Rings in New Year With New Pastoral Guidance
The Gospel cannot be proclaimed “with inquisitorial beatings of condemnation. No, the Gospel is preached gently, with fraternity and love,” with an open heart “always longing” for God, like that of St. Peter Faber, Pope Francis told 350 fellow Jesuits at the Church of the Ges
Iraq Death Toll Worse Since Conflict in 2008
Just a few days before news emerged that the city of Falluja in Iraq’s Anbar Province had fallen into Al Qaeda hands on Jan. 3, the Web site Iraqbodycount.com released its report on the annual death toll in Iraq. Its researchers found that 9,500 civilians died in violence in Iraq in 2013, the
The Living Word
The Bible Reborn: Rediscovering the riches of Scripture
A revolution has taken place in the Roman Catholic Church’s understanding of the Bible.
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