A Pope for the Americas: Can Francis help bring stability to Latin America?
Venezuela is mired in a deadly and crippling standoff. Since early February, anti-government protests, largely student-led, have turned many of the oil-rich nation’s cities into scenes of street barricades and tear gas. More than 40 people have been killed so far.This is the crisis Hugo Cháve
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
It’s hard to believe that there is still an untold story about Watergate. Yet here it is.
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Similar WitnessRe “What Martyrdom Means,” by Patrick Gilger, S.J. (5/12): In so many ways, the story of the life and death of Frans van der Lugt, S.J., echoes the story of the seven Trappist monks who lived among Algerians in Tibhirine and who were kidnapped and beheaded during the Alger
Editorials
War and the President
In West Point speech, Obama makes his case for the new role of American power abroad.
Features
Watergate, S.J.: Three Jesuits and the downfall of a president
By the spring of 1973, the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., had become a sensation but not yet an obsession.
Faith in Focus
Among Mercies: My grandmother, Catherine McAuley and me
Ty Barnes on the powerful witness of her Baptist grandmother and Sister Catherine McAuley.
Books
Pathfinder
‘Jesus: A Pilgrimage,’ by James Martin, S.J.
Sand Gets in Your Eyes
‘I’ve Got You Under My Skin,’ by Mary Higgins Clark
Revolution Rock
‘Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot,’ by Masha Gessen
Theater
Creature Discomforts: Journeys of hurt and healing on Broadway
Journeys of hurt and healing on Broadway: ‘Of Mice and Men’ and ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’
The Word
Building on Faith
The question for the disciples came from Jesus himself ldquo Who do people say that the Son of Man is rdquo The problem for Christians today in answering this question might be how to make sense of Jesus rsquo humanity in the context of his true divinity For Jesus rsquo apostles standing fac
The Little Ones
How quickly should we move from the literal to the allegorical figurative or spiritual meaning of words in the Bible There is no one answer for in reading the Bible sometimes the literal meaning of a word or a passage is indeed the spiritual meaning itself at other times the literal reading gro
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Anti-human trafficking activists warn of heightened risk during World Cup in Brazil.
Of Other Things
Outrage Again
Each mass shooting seems to highlight something uniquely “off” in American society.
Signs Of the Times
News Briefs
As the United Nations reported that 480,000 people have fled after months of fighting in Iraq’s Anbar province, suicide bombings and clashes between security forces and militants killed 36 people on May 30. • Security forces in Afghanistan on June 6 were questioning three Taliban members
Vatican Finance Reform Continues
Francis dismisses all-Italian five-member board of Vatican’s financial watchdog.
Church and Economy
The world financial system “has been built as a new idolatry,” charged Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, at a forum on June 3 in Washington, sponsored by the Catholic University of America’s Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies. During h
Church Leaders Urge Action To Protect Migrant Children
Catholic leaders have raised concerns that Latin American migrants are increasingly in danger of human rights violations, particularly the growing number of minors trying to make the trip from Central America to the United States alone. In a statement released on June 4, Bishop Eusebio Elizondo, aux
Washington Front
Immigration Impasse
Will Republicans pay a price with their Catholic allies for failure to act?
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