Of Many Things
The Museum of the Bible is ultimately a leap of faith
An unprecedented ecumenical and interreligious cooperation is the museum’s greatest accomplishment.
Your Take
The Letters
The footprint of colonialism remains overwhelming.
What type of gun control does the U.S. need?
Although respondents to America’s survey had different priorities with regard to gun control, an overwhelming majority of 88 percent called gun control a pro-life issue.
Editorials
‘America’ commemorates the Reformation
For what we and our forebears have done and failed to do, we ask for forgiveness.
The deadliest consequence of our unfettered gun ownership is not mass shootings: it’s suicide.
A suicide prevented is often more than only one life saved; it often is a whole family preserved.
The Editors: Don’t underfund the Census
The Census must be done right.
Short Take
The atheist’s case against abortion: respect for human rights
Millennials in the “pro-life generation” are not interested in a culture war, but simply want to save preborn children and their mothers from the tragedy of abortion.
Dispatches
Cremations overtake burials, and the church adapts
Catholics are following the general public in a broader acceptance of cremation.
Advocates for death penalty abolition encouraged by Pope Francis statement
“We absolutely welcome the pope’s strong statement on this issue; we welcome the moral clarity and the leadership he is showing.”
Pope Francis commits the church to protect children from abuse in the digital world
The Declaration of Rome appealed “to leaders of the world’s great religions to inform and mobilize members of every faith to join in a global movement to protect the world’s children.”
How does Trump’s tax plan line up with Catholic social teaching?
According to Catholic social tradition, paying taxes is part of the way Catholic citizens contribute to the common good.
Catholic leaders press for Dream Act as DACA deadline looms
Congress has until March 5 to pass legislation to help immigrants who are currently shielded from deportation by the program.
Features
Can the Catholic Church keep millennials from passing it by?
Among those Catholics who choose to leave the church, 74 percent do so between the ages of 10 and 20. And 87 percent of them say that it is for good.
A 3-question examination of conscience on immigration that all Catholics need to do
Catholics are called to act and to equip ourselves with truth-telling tools to transform the polemics of immigration into a grace-filled response to human suffering.
Faith in Focus
Chasing Likes: Confessions of an Instagram addict
There’s a big difference between engagement and encounter.
Ideas
Elegy for a Heartbreaker: Tom Petty and the simple beauty of song
Tom Petty died on Monday at age 66, and anyone who knows me well understands that it is a personal loss.
The Corrosion of High School Debate—And How It Mirrors American Politics
300 Words a Minute, and Going Nowhere: High School Debate Today.
Books
What it’s like to wait for a loved one missing in war
Barton Cross, a Navy serviceman, was taken prisoner by the Japanese in 1942. Then his brothers tried to get him back.
Is Salman Rushdie the novelist we need to capture America under Trump?
Rushdie is a writer keen to take on big, messy matters—and few are bigger or messier these days than American life at home and abroad.
Bringing Thomas Merton’s wisdom to children with an ABC book
A new introduction could plant seeds in children that will perhaps flower later in life.
A writer who helps us understand the lives of others
Paley knew by instinct what science now confirms: the role reading plays in developing empathy for the other.
Television
“BoJack Horseman” is a comedy about living in a long-broken world
The absurdity of “BoJack Horseman” offers an unrelenting, often devastating look into our own humanity.
Poetry
Dog
After Bella In truth, I know nothing of her secret or public life. She is flesh, a body carrying blood, a tight pelt of skin, the mapping of bones, and the nervy jittery pulsing of organs, a panting mouth, a tongue, a small sack of the same complex and rot that makes up my constantly…
The Word
The Relationship That Matters
Only those who understand true humility can walk with Christ each day into the presence of the Father.
Those Who Are Ready
Only three Sundays remain in the church year. Each of them includes a Gospel about the end times.
Last Take
Catholics of color are keeping the U.S. Catholic Church alive
The Catholic Church in the United States is being transformed by its black and brown parishioners, whose numbers and voices are rising.
Faith
Cremations overtake burials, and the church adapts
Catholics are following the general public in a broader acceptance of cremation.
The Relationship That Matters
Only those who understand true humility can walk with Christ each day into the presence of the Father.
‘America’ commemorates the Reformation
For what we and our forebears have done and failed to do, we ask for forgiveness.
Those Who Are Ready
Only three Sundays remain in the church year. Each of them includes a Gospel about the end times.
The Museum of the Bible is ultimately a leap of faith
An unprecedented ecumenical and interreligious cooperation is the museum’s greatest accomplishment.
Chasing Likes: Confessions of an Instagram addict
There’s a big difference between engagement and encounter.
Can the Catholic Church keep millennials from passing it by?
Among those Catholics who choose to leave the church, 74 percent do so between the ages of 10 and 20. And 87 percent of them say that it is for good.
Catholics of color are keeping the U.S. Catholic Church alive
The Catholic Church in the United States is being transformed by its black and brown parishioners, whose numbers and voices are rising.
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The Letters
The footprint of colonialism remains overwhelming.
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