Listen to the Spirit: Cardinal Walter Kasper on the Synod on the Family
Not since the Second Vatican Council has a gathering of representatives of the world’s Catholic bishops sparked such interest and controversy as the Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the Family, which opened in the Vatican on Oct. 5. While the agenda is very wide,
Dignity for All: Justice begins with economic security.
Editor’s Note: This article is the second in a two-part series. We asked two prominent members of Congress, both Catholics with famous names, to respond to Pope Francis’ repeated calls to empower the poor. The first response, by Congressman Paul Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin, appeared on
Learning Curve: How one archdiocese adapted its Catholic schools for the 21st century
Like almost every other diocese in the United States, the Archdiocese of New York is undergoing a serious and daring refashioning of our beloved Catholic elementary schools. Since 1727, when the Ursuline Sisters of New Orleans opened the first Catholic grade school in what would become the United St
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Civilization, wrote Thomas Gilby, O.P., is marked by people locked in argument.
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Guilty NationRe “Prison Possibilities,” by Valerie Schultz (9/29): Ours is a crazy society. We believe that sending someone to prison for life will somehow restore justice in the world for a loved one whose life was cut short. At a rate of 716 people per 100,000, the United States incarc
Editorials
Persons, Not Products
Surrogacy is sure to grow in popularity if other policy alternatives are not explored.
Features
Our Bleeding Hearts: Seeking more mercy from the media
During my year in the United Kingdom I kept up obsessively with news of home. It is not a habit that is encouraged among students abroad, but I expected with the sort of headlines I followed I would not be missing much. How is it possible, I then reasoned, to read about controversial or troubling…
Faith in Focus
My Holy Fathers: Encounters with two popes
I was a seminarian in Rome when Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was elected Pope John XXIII. More than five decades later, I found myself in Rome once more, on April 27, at the canonization ceremony that celebrated Pope John’s holy life, as well as that of Pope John Paul II. I was one of 800 priests
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Dreaming On: Tales of modern immigration
Tales of modern immigration
Books
Consensus Lost?
‘The Twilight of the American Enlightenment,’ by George M. Marsden
Surviving Anti-Modernism
‘All Good Books Are Catholic Books,’ by Una M. Cadegan
Spiritual Exercisers
‘Inside the Jesuits,’ by Robert Blair Kaiser
Poetry
Autumn
Autumn is the time of yearwhen God’s invisible handpaints the leavesin broad strokesof color,then plucks them offone by one.
The Word
God’s Interest
In the covenant code in Exodus in which Moses reveals God rsquo s prohibitions and commandments to the Israelites we quickly learn that God is a God who hears the voices of the powerless who sees the needs of the poor The terms of the covenant directed the Israelites not to ldquo wrong or oppre
Columns
Commons Sense
Commoning was an economic system built around meeting the needs of the poor.
Current Comment
Current Comment
For years Pedro Arrupe’s legacy was an object of suspicion in some Vatican circles.
Philosopher's Notebook
The Blue Wall
The eugenic dream was not eliminated by the Allied victors or Nuremberg tribunals.
Signs Of the Times
News Briefs
The Obama administration announced plans in early October to allow minors to apply for refugee status from within El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, in an effort to discourage them from making the dangerous trek to enter the United States illegally. • On Sept. 29, during a ceremony at Chicago
Christian Groups ‘De-Recognized’
IntraVarsity student says groups should be led members “representative of that religion.”
Student Demonstrations Persist As Beijing Refuses to Budge
Tensions between student demonstrators and authorities in Beijing rose as protests continued for broader democratic rights in Hong Kong in October. On Oct. 3 protesters accused police of allowing pro-government “thugs” to assault them in the city’s Mong Kok district.“Nothing
C.R.S. Continues Response to Ebola
Catholic Relief Services has committed more than $1.5 million in private funds to continue its emergency response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which has so far killed 2,800 people. While the World Health Organization has declared the outbreak contained in Senegal and Nigeria, the number of
‘I Am Because We Are’
Philosophy of ‘Ubuntu’ is important to the founding myth of the new South African nation.
Iraqi Refugees May Never Return
Iraqi refugees who fled Islamic State violence after Mosul was overrun say it will be difficult ever to return home, despite concerns by the church that more Christians are fleeing their ancient homeland in the Middle East. “I thought I was living in a kind of dystopian end-of-times film,&rdqu
Synod Looks At Remarried Catholics
Cardinal Walter Kasper of Germany, the author of a controversial proposal to make it easier for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive Communion, said on Oct. 1 that he believes Pope Francis backs the measure but would not apply it without support from the bishops at the upcoming synods
Vatican Dispatch
Shock Waves in Rome
House arrest of former nuncio sends tremors through the Vatican establishment.
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