Of Many Things
To end abortion, we need to narrow the gap between civil and moral law
The whole array of potential threats to life and human dignity is interrelated.
Your Take
The Letters
There is no one “Catholic” way to address immigration issues.
What’s the biggest obstacle to addressing a culture of sexual harassment?
When asked if they had experienced sexual harassment, 89 percent of all respondents to our recent survey answered yes, while 76 percent told America that they had seen someone else experience harassment. Ninety-seven percent of women who responded said that they had experienced sexual harassment first hand. “Sexual harassment is so commonplace in its different…
Editorials
The Editors: What we owe America’s farmworkers
U.S. agriculture is facing a silent crisis.
The Editors: Children’s health insurance deserves more than life support from Congress
The willingness to use CHIP as a bargaining tactic highlight the misplaced priorities of the current congressional leadership.
Short Take
What’s the Catholic response to the opioid epidemic? Hope in action.
Hopelessness is one option. But it is not the Christian one.
Dispatches
A U.N. mission offers a sobering assessment of poverty in America
The United States is thwarting the advancement of millions of its citizens, a UN rapporteur says.
As more Dreamers lose protection, Catholic leaders say Congress must act on DACA
More than 22,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children are already subject to deportation, and Congress seems no closer to finding a solution.
After pope’s Myanmar visit, Catholic Relief Services continues its humanitarian aid to Rohingya
While diplomats and advocates weigh in on the crisis, Catholic Relief Services in Bangladesh, supporting the local Caritas office, is responding with humanitarian assistance, delivering food and critical survival supplies to thousands of Rohingya families.
Features
These families lost loved ones to violence. Now they are fighting the death penalty.
Discussions of capital punishment do not often address how death sentences affect the people who are left behind.
What the hurricanes revealed about Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico was home to widespread poverty and on the verge of bankruptcy. And that was before Hurricane Maria.
Faith in Focus
Sister Antona Ebo’s lifelong struggle against white supremacy, inside and outside the Catholic Church
On Nov. 11, the Catholic Church lost a moral titan in the long struggle for racial equality and justice in the United States.
Books
The ecstatic, tragic life of Muhammad Ali
Readers who identify with Ali will have to shut their eyes to the negatives and praise the positives.
Daniel Ellsberg on the most dangerous threat we face
To those of us who campaigned against the Vietnam War as unjust and unwinnable, Daniel Ellsberg was a hero.
Afghanistan: the war we should still care about
The continued costs and casualties alone should lead parents, taxpayers and indeed politicians to care.
Looking back on a revolutionary year: 1968
Larger-than-life figures, social mayhem, political chaos and a foreign war.
Film
Boys Town turns 100 this month, so go watch the Spencer Tracy movie.
At first Father Flanagan rejected the idea of a film, but he signed on after he saw a script that he liked.
Music
“On Eagle’s Wings”: The simple origin of the song that makes the world cry
Composer Jan Michael Joncas kept the song under wraps for years.
Poetry
Birdwatching
I expect you to break through, Across these shoddy lenses soon, To burst into view, knowing full well I will lose you. Why’s it all waiting And watching with you? Once, In a cardinal’s dress, you hopped From mind’s bough to heart’s branch In one second, slipped on the dark Vestments of ravens in the…
The Word
Imitate Me
Jesus wanted individuals who were not afraid to set out into deep water.
Knowing and Being Known
John’s Gospel narrative is full of unexpected turns and incongruous situations.
Last Take
Cardinal Cupich: Pope Francis’ ‘field hospital’ calls us to radically rethink church life
Medics are useless if the wounded cannot reach them.
Faith
Cardinal Cupich: Pope Francis’ ‘field hospital’ calls us to radically rethink church life
Medics are useless if the wounded cannot reach them.
Imitate Me
Jesus wanted individuals who were not afraid to set out into deep water.
Knowing and Being Known
John’s Gospel narrative is full of unexpected turns and incongruous situations.
Following Francis: The pope’s social media ministry takes off
Pope Francis has already attracted more than 40 million followers on Twitter, and he is quickly making a splash on Instagram as well.
These families lost loved ones to violence. Now they are fighting the death penalty.
Discussions of capital punishment do not often address how death sentences affect the people who are left behind.
“On Eagle’s Wings”: The simple origin of the song that makes the world cry
Composer Jan Michael Joncas kept the song under wraps for years.
Sister Antona Ebo’s lifelong struggle against white supremacy, inside and outside the Catholic Church
On Nov. 11, the Catholic Church lost a moral titan in the long struggle for racial equality and justice in the United States.
Magazine
The Letters
There is no one “Catholic” way to address immigration issues.
Media
A Catholic Media Trinity: Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong and Andy Warhol
Their Catholicism was not incidental to their theories and their art; it was their structure, their spirit and their sustenance.
Vatican Dispatch
Following Francis: The pope’s social media ministry takes off
Pope Francis has already attracted more than 40 million followers on Twitter, and he is quickly making a splash on Instagram as well.
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