What would Simone Weil make of the way we work today?
For Weil, work puts us in touch with ourselves, with others, with the exterior world.
Why Trump can’t win without white Catholics
American Catholics translate to about 20 percent of all registered voters, but they may have an outsized effect on Trump’s chances.
Of Many Things
Who gets to say who the “real Catholics” are?
Jeering fellow Catholics as they enter the church is neither Catholic nor particularly pro-life.
Letters
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Incompatible PositionsRe “Defend the Hyde Amendment” (Editorial, 8/15): There is no such thing as a pro-life Democratic Party position. It was excluded from the party in 1992 when they refused to let Pennsylvania’s Gov. Bob Casey Sr. (a defendant in that year’s Supreme Court
Editorials
What makes reading a social justice issue?
The lives of readers are likely to be not only longer but deeper.
Faith in Focus
On the 15th anniversary of 9/11, a prayer for my teenage son
It is in our acts of mercy, not retribution, that we share in the very life of God.
Ideas
What One World Trade Center tells us about ourselves.
What is possible when we acknowledge the strength of our diversity?
Books
Francis the Dreamer
‘Francis, Bishop of Rome,’ by Allan Figueroa Deck, S.J., and ‘Go into the Streets!’ by Thomas P. Rausch, S.J., and Richard R. Gaillardetz
Nones Beyond the Numbers
‘Choosing Our Religion,’ by Elizabeth Drescher
The Word
Serving God
The complexity of the parable of the dishonest manager found in Luke rsquo s Gospel alone did not stop the church fathers from cutting to the heart of the matter Jesus commended the dishonest manager for slashing the amount of money the debtors owed to his master and encouraged his listeners to a
Current Comment
Who watches the watchmen?
When Apple refused to help the F.B.I. hack into the iPhone of a shooter in the attack last December in San Bernardino, both sides claimed their actions defended the common good. Apple warned that intentionally breaking their own software would put the safety and privacy of millions of thei
Minimum wage hikes have mixed effects, and they shouldn’t be our only focus.
Perhaps the E.I.T.C. needs a slogan as catchy as “Fight for $15.”
Prison reform advocates were encouraged by the D.O.J. decision.
The news was big, the numbers behind it less so: The federal government announced it will end its use of private prisons, having deemed them less safe and less effective than government-run facilities. This is welcome news to those who are hoping for prison reform, yet the total number of facilities
Faith
On the 15th anniversary of 9/11, a prayer for my teenage son
It is in our acts of mercy, not retribution, that we share in the very life of God.
A post-9/11 Generation Catholic analyzes the struggles of his faith.
“Memory is a key part of keeping faith in the modern world.”
Why we need a new theology of work
We have to ask if the idea of vocation as a stable place in the world applies to the way careers operate in the American economy.
Generation Faith
A post-9/11 Generation Catholic analyzes the struggles of his faith.
“Memory is a key part of keeping faith in the modern world.”
Of Other Things
Saints of Southwest Baltimore
A view of the city few people have seen
Signs Of the Times
Clean Up Begins After Historic Flooding in Baton Rouge Area
Water lapped at the heels of the Rev. Michael Galea, the still steady rain a constant reminder of Mother Nature’s unfinished business. Father Galea, pastor at Holy Rosary Church in St. Amant, La., estimated that as many as 90 percent of his parishioners had been affected in some way during the
Suffering and Heroism After Quake
As hope of finding any more survivors dimmed, the official death toll after a magnitude 6.0 earthquake rocked central Italy reached 290 on Aug. 29. The quake and over 300 aftershocks devastated the homes and lives of thousands of people in the early hours of the morning of Aug. 24.At least 400 peopl
Border Children Return
Thousands of children trying to escape gang violence and poverty in Central America have made their way to the United States this year—and there is no sign that the flow is letting up, the U.N. children’s agency said in a report released on Aug. 23. In the first six months of 2016, Unice
Condemning Terror
U.S. Catholic leaders and some of Iran’s top religious figures issued a joint declaration that calls for the end of weapons of mass destruction and of terrorism and of assigning blame for terrorist acts to an entire religion. “Christianity and Islam share a commitment to love and respect
Discernment Needed
In a meeting with Polish Jesuits, Pope Francis worried that too many seminaries teach a rigid list of rules that make it difficult or impossible for priests to respond to the real-life situations of those who come to them seeking guidance. “Some priestly formation programs run the risk of educ
News Briefs
Responding to inquiries from the A.C.L.U. and other groups, the nonprofit Catholic organization SSM Health agreed to provide birth control pills at the 26 clinics inside Walgreens stores in the St. Louis area that it began operating on Aug. 25. • On Aug. 26, France’s top administrative co
A Hate Crime in Queens?
The borough’s Bangladeshi community remained tense more than a week after two men were gunned down a few blocks from a humble storefront mosque in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens on Aug. 13. Jewel Chowdhury, the general secretary of the Jalalabad Association of America, says the Muslim c
Vatican Dispatch
What happened when Pope Francis met Kirill
Pope Francis made history earlier this year when he met the Russian Orthodox patriarch
Washington Front
The only candidates Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton could defeat are each other.
There is nothing traditional about this election.
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