What is the next chapter in Cuba’s story?
Today the United States reopened its embassy in Havana. Here’s what Cubans are saying about the diplomatic thaw.
How did Vatican I change the church?
The interpretation of the Second Vatican Council has been a matter of controversy since the council ended. Should the council be interpreted in continuity with the church’s traditional teaching (especially from Trent and the First Vatican Council), or does it represent a significant new depart
What we can do for Middle East Christians
From the Middle East, the very cradle of Christianity, come daily headlines that make us want to recoil in disbelief. They accompany images of ghastly beheadings, families torn apart, innocent bystanders mercilessly gunned down and homes torched for no other reason than the faith of their residents.
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Robert Kennedy and the truly radical nature of our Christian call in the modern world.
Letters
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Deepening DialogueI welcome the suggestion in “Coping With Polarity” (Editorial, 5/25) that “after naming the wounds, we can begin to heal by toning down fiery words and divisive stances, by admitting differences with our friends and colleagues without alienating them or blaming th
Editorials
Nuclear disarmament conference ends with a whimper
U.N. conference on nuclear disarmament ends with a whimper
Faith in Focus
Punctuating Our Days: The Liturgy of the Hours recalls God’s abiding presence.
Punctuation can make a world of difference in our understanding of written communication. Consider, for example, the following sentences: “Let’s eat, Uncle Larry!” and “Let’s eat Uncle Larry!”Each sentence is composed of the same words. But a single punctuation ma
Books
For-Profit Faith
‘One Nation Under God,’ by Kevin M. Kruse
The Velvet Revolutionary
‘Havel,’ by Michael Zantovsky
Responsible Writers
‘Moral Agents,’ by Edward Mendelson; ‘Our Only World,’ by Wendell Berry; ‘There Is Simply Too Much to Think About,’ by Saul Bellow
Film
Saved by Mercy: The grown-up message of ‘Little Boy’
The grown-up message of ‘Little Boy’
Poetry
Ballade of the Botanist
For Sister Rosemary Johnson, R.S.M.And a river went out of the place of pleasure to water paradise.—Gn 2:10Adam…could not have inferred from the fluidity and transparency of water that it would suffocate him….—Hume The botany that blessed Mendel’s pisum—Has
The Word
New Creation
If you want to be transformed by the Messiah the first step is to recognize the Messiah in your midst This means being ready to encounter the Son of God wherever you are and whatever time it is This means inclining not just your ear for God rsquo s voice but your heart for God…
No Delight in Death
God is for us and for life God after all ldquo did not make death and he does not delight in the death of the living rdquo Death is our enemy and God has joined with us to battle against it The Gospel of Mark invites us to see how God is fighting for us…
Columns
Man and Woman Together
The alliance between the man and the woman images God in an irreplaceable way.
Current Comment
Current Comment
Banning abortions after 20 weeks is not as radical as pro-choice advocates would have you believe.
Of Other Things
Never Justifiable
Church leaders should give a black-and-white answer on the death penalty.
Signs Of the Times
Pope Francis, ‘Messenger of Peace,’ Comes to Sarajevo
From the beginning of his pontificate the Argentine pope has given particular attention to “the peripheries” of the world. Bosnia-Herzegovina, with its capital city Sarajevo, is one of them. Life is hard there. The economy is weak, unemployment is high and ethnic tensions are never far f
News Briefs
At St. Anthony of Padua Church in Wilmington, Del., on June 6, President Obama delivered the eulogy for Beau Biden, the son of Vice President Joe Biden. • Pope Francis sent “heartfelt condolences” to the citizens of Ghana after at least 150 people were killed in an explosion at a ga
Truth-Telling
A Canadian government investigation used the term “cultural genocide” to describe the experience of aboriginal people, advising that reconciliation within the country “is going to take hard work.” Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on June 2 called for changes
‘Informal’ Workers
The black market or informal economy threatens workers’ rights, security and protection worldwide, and more must be done to strengthen minimum wages, safety standards and maternity benefits, said Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, who heads the Holy See’s Permanent Observer Mission to the United
Christian Demolition in China?
The Communist Party reminded its 86 million members of its official atheism.
Archdiocese Charged
Criminal charges were filed on June 5 against the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis stemming from its handling of Curtis Wehmeyer, a troubled priest who was eventually convicted of child abuse in 2013 and defrocked in March 2015. Ramsey County prosecutors charged the archdiocese as a corporati
Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis heads to South America’s poorest countries
Francis’ visit takes him to ‘the peripheries of the South American periphery.’
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