Jesuit School Spotlight
What happens when an all-male Jesuit school goes co-ed?
“To open the doors to a Jesuit Catholic school for as many students as we can in the Montreal area is really important to us.”
Of Many Things
An unlikely role model for a more human abortion debate
When it comes to abortion debates, we need fewer polemics and much more compassion, especially of the kind Venerable Nelson Baker put into action.
Your Take
Is there a better way to pray the Our Father? Our readers weigh in.
Readers respond with their own thoughts about tailoring the prayer that Jesus taught us.
Editorials
The Editors: Roe v. Wade was a legal and moral travesty. Its end can bring true justice for women and the unborn.
What is most needed in the public debate on abortion is an honest moral reckoning with the two goods that are in tension when a woman faces a pregnancy she feels she cannot continue.
Short Take
The church can help prevent sexual violence—by doing a better job teaching about sex
Far from encouraging sexual activity, the right kind of sex education can teach children that they have the agency to say “no.” Parishes and faith-based groups are ideal for delivering this message.
Dispatches
The divided states of America: A post-Roe map
Twenty-six states are certain or likely to ban abortion if as expected the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.
Turf is one of the worst polluting fossil fuels. The Irish turf-burning industry could learn something from Pope Francis
Destroying bogland is the Irish equivalent of burning the Amazon.
Is a Catholic university still Catholic when the priests, brothers and sisters have left?
As the numbers of priests and consecrated women and men available for ministry continue to dwindle, religious orders are seeking out models that ensure their respective missions and charisms.
A Jesuit’s Palm Sunday with the ‘crucified church’ of Belize
The prayer of Father Sam Wilson is that more of his brother Jesuits will answer the call to serve in assignments on the peripheries like southern Belize. “It’s where we should be,” he says.
In El Salvador, churches are essential to ending gang violence. But the government’s crackdown could hurt those efforts.
When gang members were asked about what they must do to exit the gang, a little over half said they must join a church or follow God.
Features
How America Sold Out Little League Baseball
In the United States, baseball is becoming a mostly white country-club sport for upper-class families to consume, like a snorkeling vacation or a round of golf.
The next issue in the abortion debate after Roe v. Wade: Do we really honor motherhood?
The recent leak to Politico of a draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito suggests that the Supreme Court will soon strike down Roe v. Wade. We must consider the road ahead.
Faith and Reason
Catholic hospitals, religious freedom and reaching across the aisle: A dialogue between a priest and an A.C.L.U. director
Catholic health care ministries are at odds with the American Civil Liberties Union on many issues. But are there areas where the two can agree—or collaborate?
Faith in Focus
My name has been in my family for seven generations. Here’s what I hope it means for the next one.
Our shared name is a constant reminder that the work I do today is not on behalf of some shapeless ideal of a better world, but for the world that my children will grow up in.
My parish’s tabernacle was stolen. I’ll never see the Eucharist the same way again.
It took the theft of our church’s tabernacle for me to comprehend the sanctity of its contents.
Books
Review: Thomas Merton’s deep devotion to the Eucharist — and how it called him to radical love
Gregory K. Hillis tackles an argument that has long haunted Thomas Merton’s legacy: that Merton somehow was not a faithful-enough Catholic.
The Catholic case for eliminating nuclear weapons
Michael Krepon’s new book provides a key history of the times, events, organizations and people involved in the pursuit of a peaceful approach to national and global security.
Long before RBG, Justice John Marshall Harlan was the Supreme Court’s ‘great dissenter’
Peter S. Canellos provides us with a fascinating biography of a Supreme Court judge who was the sole dissenter in both the Civil Rights Cases (1883) and in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), in which the court held that the Constitution established the separate-but-equal doctrine.
Review: ‘The Agitators’ vindicates three women who ended up on the right side of history
In “The Agitators,” Dorothy Wickenden explores 19th-century intersections of class, racism and patriarchy through the lives of the escaped slave Harriet Tubman and the activists Martha Wright and Frances Seward.
Music
Nick Cave is not a practicing Christian. But he wants to be your spiritual director.
For hundreds of thousands who follow his music and his newsletter, The Red Hand Files, Nick Cave has become a pastor of sorts.
Poetry
The 2022 Foley Contest: Poetry that speaks the unspeakable about the tragedy in Ukraine
We include fragments of poems that, while not contest finalists, provide one more way for America to shine a light on the ongoing horror in Ukraine.
The 2022 Foley Poetry Contest Winner: In Copenhagen
I begged them: “Keep the money. Just give me the photos of my family.”
Last Take
Bishop Wack: We need more evangelical Catholics
The harsh reality is that if Catholics were graded on our faithfulness to the Great Commission, we might not even get an “A” for effort.
Faith
My name has been in my family for seven generations. Here’s what I hope it means for the next one.
Our shared name is a constant reminder that the work I do today is not on behalf of some shapeless ideal of a better world, but for the world that my children will grow up in.
What happens when an all-male Jesuit school goes co-ed?
“To open the doors to a Jesuit Catholic school for as many students as we can in the Montreal area is really important to us.”
Catholic hospitals, religious freedom and reaching across the aisle: A dialogue between a priest and an A.C.L.U. director
Catholic health care ministries are at odds with the American Civil Liberties Union on many issues. But are there areas where the two can agree—or collaborate?
My parish’s tabernacle was stolen. I’ll never see the Eucharist the same way again.
It took the theft of our church’s tabernacle for me to comprehend the sanctity of its contents.
Is there a better way to pray the Our Father? Our readers weigh in.
Readers respond with their own thoughts about tailoring the prayer that Jesus taught us.
The church can help prevent sexual violence—by doing a better job teaching about sex
Far from encouraging sexual activity, the right kind of sex education can teach children that they have the agency to say “no.” Parishes and faith-based groups are ideal for delivering this message.
Bishop Wack: We need more evangelical Catholics
The harsh reality is that if Catholics were graded on our faithfulness to the Great Commission, we might not even get an “A” for effort.
A Jesuit’s Palm Sunday with the ‘crucified church’ of Belize
The prayer of Father Sam Wilson is that more of his brother Jesuits will answer the call to serve in assignments on the peripheries like southern Belize. “It’s where we should be,” he says.
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