Of Many Things
A simple way to break down social barriers: courtesy titles
Abandoning social customs tends to benefit elites by reinforcing social barriers rather than removing them.
Letters
The Letters
Being pro-life means a lot more than being anti-abortion.
Your Take
Catholic Moms: What is your experience of raising your children in the faith?
Twenty-five percent told us that one or more of their children had left the church.
Editorials
The Editors: Native Americans deserve tribal recognition
The Trump administration shows a lack of respect for the sovereignty of Native American nations.
Legalizing abortion would betray Ireland’s future
The United States can offer this nation’s own grim legacy on abortion as an ominous warning to the Irish people.
Short Take
Why Catholics should care that wilderness preserves in Utah are shrinking
Preserving wilderness areas is a way to preserve the idea of the sacred. But the Trump administration is seeking a huge reduction in protected land.
Dispatches
Infographic: A Mother’s Day wish for more children?
The fertility rate in the U.S. is down, but the cost of raising a child may be to blame. If not for immigrant families, births would be down sharply.
Why the Chinese government is targeting young Christians in its latest crackdown
The Chinese Communist Party sees young people turning to religion as an alarming trend.
El Salvador court reopens investigation of 1989 Jesuit massacre
A human rights attorney in the United States believes that the upcoming canonization of Blessed Oscar Romero in October has been a factor in a decision to revisit the 1989 Jesuit massacre at the University of Central America.
California has over 700 people on death row and executions could begin soon
In California, Catholic opponents of the death penalty are trying to protect the largest population of inmates awaiting execution in the Western Hemisphere.
Bishop McElroy: Catholics must fight polarization in politics and the church
Bishop McElroy said that Catholics must embrace “the virtues of solidarity, compassion, integrity, hope and peace-building.”
Features
What can Catholic moms do if they want their children to remain Catholic? Let go.
Those whose children remain practicing Catholics have some ideas about why that may be the case, but they, too, are well aware that things could easily have turned out differently.
Did Benedict XVI predict the rise of Trump and fake news?
The dictatorship of relativism and the demise of objective reality
Faith in Focus
I may never be able to thank the Good Samaritan who saved my life.
Through the compassionate act of a stranger, who stepped up to help me after two others had passed me by, my life was saved.
Vantage Point
Fr. Daniel Berrigan’s and the ‘Catonsville Nine’ colloquy continues to offer hope today
On May 17, 1968, nine Catholic peace activists burned draft files in an act of protest against the Vietnam War. This excerpt from America’s report of the trial (10/26/68) relates a “most unusual colloquy” between the defendants and the judge.
Books
Protecting the vulnerable
In a new book, Helen Alvaré argues that a just society defends and protects its children from harms of all kinds.
New Orleans Mayor confronts racism in new memoir
Landrieu’s push to remove Confederate statues is told through the lens of New Orleans’s chronic inability to address race and poverty.
Pope Francis gets a cartoon treatment
A graphic novel about Pope Francis.
Nothing is as it seems in this new World War II novel.
Michael Ondaatje’s new novel blends elements of John le Carré and Joseph Conrad.
Art
Heavenly Bodies, from Michelangelo to Dolce & Gabbana
The highly visual culture of Catholicism is a natural influence for all manner of artists, fashion designers not exempted.
Grant Wood’s hymns to the heartland
“In making these paintings,“ wrote Wood, “I had in mind something which I hope to convey to a fairly wide audience in America—the picture of a country rich in the arts of peace; a homely, lovable nation, infinitely worthy of any sacrifice necessary to its preservation.”
Television
‘Westworld’: Searching for meaning in a world without consequence
In this world, sin has no repercussions.
Poetry
The Word
Does your life invite others to share in God’s presence?
Can we be be points of overlap between the heavenly and earthly realms?
How has the Spirit stirred your heart into action?
God’s Spirit flows through every heart; and at times, God stirs the Spirit in each person to advance the mission of the Son.
Last Take
Who are the ‘real’ Catholics? A survey of women prompts challenging questions
The only answers that mattered, some argued, were the ones offered by people who attended Mass weekly or more.
Faith
Catholic Moms: What is your experience of raising your children in the faith?
Twenty-five percent told us that one or more of their children had left the church.
What can Catholic moms do if they want their children to remain Catholic? Let go.
Those whose children remain practicing Catholics have some ideas about why that may be the case, but they, too, are well aware that things could easily have turned out differently.
Does your life invite others to share in God’s presence?
Can we be be points of overlap between the heavenly and earthly realms?
How has the Spirit stirred your heart into action?
God’s Spirit flows through every heart; and at times, God stirs the Spirit in each person to advance the mission of the Son.
Why the Chinese government is targeting young Christians in its latest crackdown
The Chinese Communist Party sees young people turning to religion as an alarming trend.
Bishop McElroy: Catholics must fight polarization in politics and the church
Bishop McElroy said that Catholics must embrace “the virtues of solidarity, compassion, integrity, hope and peace-building.”
Did Benedict XVI predict the rise of Trump and fake news?
The dictatorship of relativism and the demise of objective reality
I may never be able to thank the Good Samaritan who saved my life.
Through the compassionate act of a stranger, who stepped up to help me after two others had passed me by, my life was saved.
Who are the ‘real’ Catholics? A survey of women prompts challenging questions
The only answers that mattered, some argued, were the ones offered by people who attended Mass weekly or more.
Magazine
The Letters
Being pro-life means a lot more than being anti-abortion.
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Faith
Culture
Vatican
Scripture
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