Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Once again the fate of the president’s signature domestic achievement is in the hands of the chief justice of the United States. That was clear enough last week when the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of King v. Burwell, the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act of 2010.
Letters
Letters
Status UpdateReaders respond to the passing on Feb. 26 of Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., former president of the University of Notre Dame and one of the most influential Catholic priests in the history of the church in the United States.Father Ted shaped my alma mater and by so doing shaped my life. He
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Health Care RhetoricRe “A Sense of Solidarity,” by Kevin P. Quinn, S.J. (3/2): I was very disturbed by the generalization and characterization of “most, if not all, conservative opposition” in the review of Health Care as a Social Good, by David M. Craig. The implication is t
Editorials
Peace and Toilet Paper: ‘Prisons must build character, not break spirits.’
For the Christian, reports of prison scandals recall images of Jesus the prisoner.
Faith in Focus
Hope and Joy-Joy: Experiencing the Gospel in Manila
‘What can possibly make a difference in these kids’ lives after all they have been through?” I asked. The director of the children’s shelter we were visiting that Sunday morning took her finger off the “enter” button she was using to flick through a PowerPoint pre
Vantage Point
Theodore Hesburgh on what Cardinal Newman missed about Catholic universities
Let us not chide Cardinal Newman for writing in the middle of the 19th century instead of the middle of the 20th. But also let us not assume that what he had to say then had absolute and unconditioned validity for all such institutions in all times.
Books
This Is My Body
‘Eucharist as Meaning’ by Joseph C. Mudd
The New Young Catholics
‘Occupy Spirituality’ by Adam Bucko and ‘From Willow Creek to Sacred Heart’ by Chris Haw
The Word
A Little Thing
If the Gospel accounts stopped just after Jesus rsquo entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday how would you imagine the next few days playing out The Gospel of John quotes Zec 9 9 ndash 10 as Jesus enters the city ldquo Look your king is coming sitting on a donkey rsquo s colt rdquo The…
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
The Prison Trap
Though the crime rate in the United States has fallen sharply over the past quarter-century, our federal and state prison population has been frozen for nearly a decade at a historic high of 1.6 million. By one estimate, America has 5 percent of the world’s population but 25 percent of its pri
Columns
‘No White Man Is Innocent’
One night William Stringfellow dreamed that he was stabbed with a knife on 125th Street in Harlem, at the hands of a black man who had asked him for a light. Stringfellow then lived in Harlem not far from there. He was a white man who graduated from Harvard Law School and, in 1956, promptly…
Culture
Gotta Dance!: Exploring the Spiritual Exercises through movement
Exploring the Spiritual Exercises through movement
Current Comment
Current Comment
Faith in Sinai; The Right to Rest; The Rights of Unions
Faith
Death Comes For the Archbishop: The Martyrdom of Óscar Romero
If for a second Óscar Romero had glanced through the open doors of the chapel, would he have seen the young man taking aim? Would he have been afraid? Would he have been tempted to flee?
Theodore Hesburgh on what Cardinal Newman missed about Catholic universities
Let us not chide Cardinal Newman for writing in the middle of the 19th century instead of the middle of the 20th. But also let us not assume that what he had to say then had absolute and unconditioned validity for all such institutions in all times.
Generation Faith
In His Time: Navigating the uncertainty of college life
My whole life was planned out when I stepped onto campus my freshman year. Although I was undeclared, I knew I wanted to major in education and graduate in four years, no more, no less. I was not exactly excited to be starting college, but I was excited to eventually become a teacher. In short,…
Of Other Things
A Litany for Flannery
The author would be 90 years old today.
Signs Of the Times
City Bids Farewell To Cardinal Egan
Cardinal Edward Egan’s time as leader of one of the nation’s largest archdioceses was haunted by the unfolding child abuse scandal, shocked by the terror spectacle of Sept. 11, 2001, and troubled by a period of fiscal uncertainty and parish closings. But Cardinal Edward Egan, archbishop
News Briefs
Barbara Moore, a sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet who 50 years ago this March participated in the civil rights march in Selma, Ala., said that events in Ferguson, Mo., and elsewhere show that more needs to be done on race relations in the United States. • Marking International Women’s D
Scotland’s Martyr for Freedom
A significant celebration occurred on March 10 this year in Glasgow, Scotland. The city lauded St. John Ogilvie, S.J., on the 400th anniversary of his martyrdom. On the previous weekend at the Church of St. Aloysius in Glasgow, staffed by the Jesuits, many gathered for liturgical commemorations of t
End of Death Penalty?
The Catholic Church firmly opposes the death penalty and urges all states to move toward its abolition, said the Vatican’s permanent observer to United Nations agencies in Geneva. “My delegation contends that bloodless means of defending the common good and upholding justice are possible
Ferguson Reports
On March 4, the U.S. Justice Department released the results of its investigation into the killing of Michael Brown last August in Ferguson, Mo. It concluded in an 87-page report “that the facts do not support the filing of criminal charges against Officer Darren Wilson.” But a second, p
Bishops’ Delegation Reports Syrian Refugee Crisis at ‘Tipping Point’
Officials of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops warn that the Syrian refugee crisis—four million people have fled the war-torn state—has reached a dangerous “tipping point.” Turkey alone has absorbed almost two million refugees from Syria and is now the only regional pow
Vatican Dispatch
The Church’s Asian Soul
During Pope Francis’ recent visit to the Philippines, I had the joy of meeting once again a man I have known for over a decade and greatly respect: Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales, the emeritus archbishop of Manila. We talked about many things, but two in particular stood out: the vocation of the F
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