Revolutionary Mercy: How Gospel forgiveness challenges our social order
How Gospel forgiveness challenges our social order
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
The bell tolled last month for Francois Mourad, a Franciscan priest and hermit, who died on June 23 after soldiers linked to a jihadist group attacked the monastery near Ghassanieh, Syria where he had taken refuge. The Syriac Catholic Archbishop of Hassake-Nisibi told Fides news agency that Father M
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Keeping Space OpenRe “Pursuing the Truth in Love,” by Matt Malone, S.J. (6/3): I have been reading America for over half a century now. While I appreciate fully your need to state the mission for this age as your predecessors did for theirs, reading your article was a little like reading
Editorials
Peaceful Intervention
There seems to be no clear path to peace in the ongoing civil war in Syria.
Features
We are one body: Catholics raise voices against the use of solitary confinement
Catholics raise voices against the use of solitary confinement.
Books
Journey into Mystery
Dana Greene rsquo s nbsp Denise Levertov A Poet rsquo s Life a biography of Anglo-American poet Denise Levertov rsquo s 1923-1997 long and complex journey as a poet woman and searcher brings alive the writer rsquo s lifetime vocation as a ldquo celebrant of Mystery rdquo For Levertov the li
A Social Character
The thought of Erich Fromm is eminently worthy of being revisited.
Poetry
Pomp
for Oscar Christoph’s birthWax, little moon.Between toes and forehead,your fullness remembers itself.It’s still dark in your palms,darker still in your mouth,yet there beats and beatsa whole novelworld roundyour rolling ears,your found thumbs,your warm redfirmament—an outer-space s
The Word
The Innocent
In every age evil takes on a new name and a new face Auschwitz sexual abuse Sodom human trafficking The personification of God in the Old Testament takes many forms but goodness remains the same and unchanged God who loves us and desires relationship with us In Genesis 18 God is presented
At Your Service
There is something charming about the account of Abraham serving the three men who suddenly appear at the oaks of Mamre It is not simply that Abraham offers unbidden hospitality and service or that they respond to his offer of food with a simple ldquo Do as you have said rdquo but that along w
Columns
Take a Shot
No one will ever make a Hollywood movie abut my sports career.
Current Comment
Current Comment
People Do Change; Leadership Training; Recognizing Abuse
Faith
Everything I Can Do: Living with Down syndrome
One special thing about me is that I have Down syndrome. It’s the way I was born.
Generation Faith
Everything I Can Do: Living with Down syndrome
One special thing about me is that I have Down syndrome. It’s the way I was born.
A Better Life
The most meaningful act of social justice in my life occurred very close to home.
Philosopher's Notebook
Another Diversity
Obligatory chapel is long gone, but diversity training has become a command performance.
Signs Of the Times
Brazilian Bishops Support Protests
The bishops declared their solidarity with the protestors “as long as they are peaceful.”
Latest H.H.S. Rule Being Studied
The final rules issued on June 28 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services implementing its mandate that employers provide coverage of contraceptives “will require more careful analysis,” New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan said in a statement. The H.H.S. final ruling updates p
News Briefs
Three months into his papacy the total number of followers of the pope’s nine Twitter accounts was more than 6.9 million. • For the first time the Davenport, Iowa-based Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award is being taken overseas, to France, where it will be presented on July 7 to Jean
Justices Issue Seminal Decisions on Marriage, Voting Rights
Two major decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court in the final week of its term left deep divisions among citizens across the country as the court ruled on the neuralgic issues of voting rights and same-sex marriage. On two consecutive days the court invalidated a key part of the Voting Rights Act and o
Pope Names Bank Commission
Pope Francis has created a five-person commission to review the activities and mission of the Vatican bank. The new pontifical commission, which includes two U.S. members, reflects the pope’s desire to ensure the bank’s activities are in harmony with the mission of the universal church a
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