Of Many Things
The six models of Cardinal Avery Dulles
“Each of the models brings out certain important and necessary points, but any model used in isolation will lead to distortions because each model exhibits only a particular reality” of the child of God and disciple of Jesus Christ who was Avery Dulles.
Your Take
The Letters
“Am I interested and concerned about the widening sex abuse scandal? Heck yes. It deeply grieves me. But I trust God’s work within our church.”
Has the sexual abuse crisis affected your donations to the church?
“If they care about money above all, maybe they will listen to our outrage more once they suffer financially.”
Editorials
How do we restore trust in our church after the sex abuse crisis?
We must pray for the grace to proceed boldly wherever the painful truth of our failures leads us, trusting in the One who is faithful to the end.
After Khashoggi’s murder, it’s time to reassess our Middle East policy
The apparently state-sanctioned murder of Mr. Khashoggi offers the administration an opportunity to step back and reassess not just its relationship with the Saudi royal family but the overall mission of the United States throughout the Middle East.
Short Take
The U.S. needs to remain engaged in Iraq to help religious minorities
U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry argues that as beleaguered religious minorities in Iraq hang on for their very survival, the survival of religious pluralism itself is also at stake.
Dispatches
Infographic: Fifty years after Fair Housing Act, segregation persists
The homeownership gap between white and black families is as wide as it was in the 1960s, and the remaining barriers to integration include restrictive zoning and newly tightfisted banks.
The migrant caravan through the eyes of Catholic social teaching
Many of the migrants in the caravan are fleeing Central America’s “Northern Triangle”—El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. These countries are beset by “the world’s highest murder rates, deaths linked to drug trafficking and organized crime and endemic poverty.”
Venezuelans flee crisis at home but face rising tensions in Brazil
About 5,000 people leave Venezuela every day. According to the U.N. Refugee Agency, at least 1.9 million Venezuelan citizens have left the country since 2015, fleeing from the economic and political crisis that the country is experiencing under President Nicolás Maduro.
Cardinals: L.G.B.T. issues part of youth synod discussion
“We take people where they are, walking with them, moving forward,” Cardinal Blase Cupich said.
In Florida panhandle a local church steps up after Hurricane Michael
Much like New Orleans’ Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina, the low-income neighborhoods east of Panama City, where St. Dominic is located, were especially hard-hit by the storm. Now residents here are desperate for help.
Features
With Anti-Semitism on the rise, can Poland come to terms with its past?
For almost 20 years Polish scholars have been at the cutting edge of Holocaust research. But a law proposed this year threatened to change all that.
Should we be worried about A.I.? Theologians, philosophers and Catholic thinkers weigh in
As Facebook, Apple and Google pour billions into artificial intelligence, ethicists and moral philosophers are racing to keep up, and Catholic thinkers are looking ahead to the possible harms to humanity.
Faith in Focus
What—if anything—ensures a new college student will keep going to Mass?
It is in college that a young Catholic truly has to lay claim to her faith.
Ideas
Jordan Peterson understands your suffering
Peterson urges his followers to seek deep meaning rather than superficial happiness. But can he create a community?
Books
Great poetry that makes no sense: America’s 2018 Poetry Roundup
And reading poetry, like the books in our 2018 poetry review, can be a great way to not make perfect sense of a thing, but to just be with a thing.
Film
Review: “The Wolf House” explores the traumas of childhood abuse
“The Wolf House” is a Chilean political horror film that explores the traumas of childhood abuse.
Theater
Review: The Troubles bring trouble to a farm family in Northern Ireland
In the fallen world of “The Ferryman,” conflict and compromise poison everything.
Poetry
Fr. Kleinsorge, Hibakusha, Celebrates Mass for August 6, the Feast of the Transfiguration
Because he lived till 1977,
his hair as white as wool
The Word
How can we know that Christ is near?
A disciple who seeks these signs can help the risen Christ restore some fallen corner of creation.
How can we speak the truth in love?
Building our lives around divine love will give our words the power to heal, to deliver and to save.
Last Take
Catholic comedian Jeremy McLellan on finding God by welcoming the disabled
People with intellectual disabilities are, as Jean Vanier is fond of calling them, “friends of time.”
Faith
The six models of Cardinal Avery Dulles
“Each of the models brings out certain important and necessary points, but any model used in isolation will lead to distortions because each model exhibits only a particular reality” of the child of God and disciple of Jesus Christ who was Avery Dulles.
Has the sexual abuse crisis affected your donations to the church?
“If they care about money above all, maybe they will listen to our outrage more once they suffer financially.”
How do we restore trust in our church after the sex abuse crisis?
We must pray for the grace to proceed boldly wherever the painful truth of our failures leads us, trusting in the One who is faithful to the end.
How can we know that Christ is near?
A disciple who seeks these signs can help the risen Christ restore some fallen corner of creation.
How can we speak the truth in love?
Building our lives around divine love will give our words the power to heal, to deliver and to save.
Cardinals: L.G.B.T. issues part of youth synod discussion
“We take people where they are, walking with them, moving forward,” Cardinal Blase Cupich said.
Catholic comedian Jeremy McLellan on finding God by welcoming the disabled
People with intellectual disabilities are, as Jean Vanier is fond of calling them, “friends of time.”
What—if anything—ensures a new college student will keep going to Mass?
It is in college that a young Catholic truly has to lay claim to her faith.
Magazine
The Letters
“Am I interested and concerned about the widening sex abuse scandal? Heck yes. It deeply grieves me. But I trust God’s work within our church.”
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