Donald Trump make a place for faith
Some religiously motivated voters who make the case for Trump highlight two issues: his promise to appoint pro-life judges and his commitment to religious liberty.
How to save the liberal arts as if society depends on it (because it does)
“The first lesson of the science lab is humility, a prerequisite to wisdom.”
New CNS editor on the enduring value of Catholic media
A sound communications strategy that engages Catholic media leaders will pay great dividends for the church.
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
One bomb had exploded in Manhattan; perhaps there was a second. Some injuries, no fatalities. Within 10 minutes or so, most of the customers were back where they started: enjoying the evening, almost as if nothing had happened.
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Who are “Real” Catholics?Re Of Many Things, by Matt Malone, S.J. (9/12): Is the answer to “Who gets to say who real Catholics are?” not “the church”? Our Lord gave the church as the final arbiter in matters of sin between brothers, going so far as to say that if t
Editorials
American Catholics have faced nativism before. It was wrong then, and it’s wrong now.
Was that 1856 or last week? It appears it has been both.
Faith in Focus
Bye-bye John McLaughlin, you magnificent beast.
“Whatever one’s feelings about McLaughlin’s politics or rectitude, it is hard to deny his righteous star power.”
Books
“A Body Broken for a Broken People” offers a beautiful examination of the eucharist. Barbara Curtin Miles reviews.
Each time I attend Mass I struggle to discern: Am I about to encounter my risen Lord, or am I about to commit a serious sin?
Andrew Bacevich’s latest looks into USA involvement in the Middle East.
How did freedom become identified with unfettered access to cheap and abundant oil from halfway around the world?
Is volunteering all it’s cracked up to be? A review of “Doing Good…Says Who?”
The book is based on its authors’ decades of concrete experience with well-meaning volunteers who have tried to “do good” for people in marginalized communities in Central America.
Art
Alma Thomas: an abstract expressionist and black artist, who fiercely resisted any labels.
“A world without color would seem dead,” she said in a 1972 interview. “Color, for me, is life.”
The Word
Lessons from the 10 lepers
Only the Samaritan turned back to praise God and (literally translated) “fell before his feet” and thanked Jesus.
Columns
Where have all the Catholic intellectuals gone?
If the Christian intellectual is dead, has a Catholic cousin survived?
Current Comment
If we can stop Zika by killing all mosquitoes, should we?
The potential reduction in human suffering from eliminating disease-bearing mosquitoes would be vast.
How the Catholic media is shaping views about Muslims in America
“Islam is peace,” said George W. Bush just days after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
If you knew who was winning the election, would you still vote?
Some worry that people will skip voting if the presidential election seems over by noon.
Faith
Lessons from the 10 lepers
Only the Samaritan turned back to praise God and (literally translated) “fell before his feet” and thanked Jesus.
Believe it or not, St. Francis wasn’t always a saint.
Being a saint isn’t being without sin.
Of Other Things
Believe it or not, St. Francis wasn’t always a saint.
Being a saint isn’t being without sin.
Signs Of the Times
Fall of Mosul May Prove Greatest Humanitarian Crisis of 2016
U.S. and Iraqi military strategists are preparing for a final drive on Mosul, hoping to dislodge Islamic State militants from their last stronghold in Iraq. But how well are they planning for the inevitable impact of that offensive on the city’s residents?Hani El-Mahdi is the Iraq country repr
Catholics Have a Lot to Learn About Islam
Fewer than two in 10 U.S. Catholics hold a favorable view of Muslims, and many have little understanding of the world’s second largest religion. When asked, “What is your overall impression of Muslims?” 30 percent of those Catholics polled said they held unfavorable views, 14 perce
Duterte Seeks Revived Death Sentence
Archbishop Socrates Villegas urged Catholic lawmakers not to support “any attempt to restore the death penalty.”
‘Shocking’ Liberty
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights released a report on Sept. 7 that calls for reining in religious liberty protections in favor of nondiscrimination statutes aimed at protecting L.G.B.T. Americans. “The phrases ‘religious liberty’ and ‘religious freedom’ will stand fo
Good Investments
Small sums of financial assistance can help stabilize housing for low-income people and stave off homelessness, with its numerous related social problems, a University of Notre Dame study concluded. Targeted emergency financial assistance of a few hundred dollars for rent, security deposits, utility
News Briefs
With a Mass near the tomb of St. Ignatius Loyola in Rome, 215 Jesuits from around the world gathered on Oct. 2 for a general congregation to elect a new superior general to replace Adolfo Nicolás, S.J., who is retiring. • Brazil’s Indigenous Missionary Council in a new report highlighted
How do you achieve peace after 50 years of civil war?
“Many people in South Florida have bought this black propaganda that I am giving the country away to the Communists,” President Juan Manuel Santos said. “This is nonsense.”
Vatican Dispatch
This Jesuit has an idea to stop the violence in Syria: stop selling them weapons
“If we want to stop the war in Syria, then we have to stop the flow of arms to the different groups in conflict,” Father Prakash said.
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