Market Assumptions : Pope Francis’ challenge to income inequality
In a tweet read around the world this past April, Pope Francis told over 10 million online followers, in nine different languages, “Inequality is the root of social evil.” The pope’s diagnosis did not go over well with many American Catholics, who criticized the statement as being
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Of Many Things
I must admit ‘Wise Blood,’ my introduction to Flannery O’Connor’s work, left me cold.
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Back to BasicsIn “Preferential Options” (10/13), Congressmen Paul Ryan writes, “Before we can repair the safety net, we have to repair the thinking behind it.” The safety net is needed to keep people from falling so far down financially that their basic needs are not met. Unt
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Journalists in Danger
Many war correspondents no longer travel into Syria for fear of kidnapping or murder.
Faith in Focus
The Art of Leaving: The blessings of an uprooted life
When we left Virginia a year ago for Northern Michigan—driving 19 hours with two kids and two cats—I vowed I would never pack a box again. My husband and I are academics, but we must rival military families and missionaries in frequency of relocation. I have lost count of our moves.We li
Out of the Rubble: Life and death after Typhoon Haiyan
Life and death after Typhoon Haiyan
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Undercover Catholic
‘Shadow Warrior,’ by Randall B. Woods
The Reformers
‘The Roosevelts,’ by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
Empty Pews
‘White Elephants on Campus,’ by Margaret M. Grubiak
Television
Uncivil Society: Politics and the American sitcom
Fifteen years after the premiere of “The West Wing,” there are more television shows about politics than ever before, with “Scandal” among the biggest hits on broadcast television and a half-dozen others in production on various platforms. But the trend is not likely to boost
Poetry
November Requiem
Wood sways and mutters; palsied shutters bang.The call has come. Stripped of starlight, nightdwindles to gritty lavender and gray;mad jags of wind keep drowning out the surf.We dress, then slog through beach plums to the bay. Three days before, we calmed ten bottlenoses,then led an exodus into
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Living Stones
The Lateran Basilica in Rome is not the home parish for many of us though some might have visited it It is the pope rsquo s own cathedral but we are parishioners at churches closer to home with less ancient and lofty origins and nicknames like St Joe rsquo s and St Mike rsquo s…
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Francis 101
The pope reminds me that I have to query my choices about time and money and the stuff I buy.
Current Comment
Current Comment
Pentagon’s commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War needs an overhaul.
Faith
A New ‘Song’: Recovering ancient Israel’s spirituality of sex
Can ancient Israel’s spirituality of sex help us escape today’s hook-up culture?
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The Moviegoers
Though it might sound like a whodunit, ‘Calvary’ feels more like the movie version of what Percy called a ‘philosophical novel.’
Signs Of the Times
Ebola Orphans
Ever since Frank Mulbah’s mother died of Ebola in Monrovia, Liberia, in August, no one will go near him. “I went to my relatives after my mother died, but they chased me away, even after I told them that I didn’t have Ebola,” said Frank, 12, who tested negative for Ebola at t
Hunger’s Paradox
Providing food aid to people in need is not enough to eradicate world hunger, Pope Francis said in a message marking the celebration of World Food Day on Oct. 16. An overhaul of the entire framework of aid policies and food production is needed so that countries can be in charge of their own agricul
Winter Nears In Kurdistan
Church agencies are rushing to prepare shelters so refugee can last through the winter.
News Briefs
The Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph said on Oct. 14 that it hoped that a $9.95 million settlement of abuse claims “can bring about some closure to those hurt by abuse in the past.”• Alaska’s Gov. Sean Parnell said in a statement released on Oct. 12 that his administration wi
Pakistan: Death Sentence Upheld
A five-year court odyssey for a Pakistani Christian mother of five will continue after an appeals court in Lahore, Pakistan, on Oct. 16 upheld a death sentence for “blasphemy.” Asia Bibi, 45, has been imprisoned since 2009 while appealing her conviction. Accused by co-workers after a dis
A Year of Discussion Begins as Drama Continues With Final Report
After several days of animated debate over its official midterm report, the Synod of Bishops on the Family agreed on a final document more clearly grounded in traditional Catholic teaching. The assembly failed to reach consensus on the especially controversial questions of Communion for those who ar
When Spirit and Anatomy Don’t Match
Jordan Becker has close-cropped dark hair, a trim goatee and bulging biceps from lifting weights daily at the gym. Becker did not always look this way. A photograph of Becker at age 4 shows a smiling little girl with ringlet curls in a frilly dress. “My mother had to pay me to wear that dress,
The Living Word
A New ‘Song’: Recovering ancient Israel’s spirituality of sex
Can ancient Israel’s spirituality of sex help us escape today’s hook-up culture?
Vatican Dispatch
Looking to the 2015 Synod
The next 12 months will be an enriching and challenging period for local churches.
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