Justified Reason: The collaboration of knowledge, belief and faith
She would have to leave her intellect behind, my friend assumed, if she followed up on a profound experience of God that had led her to Mass. Eventually she decided to enroll in the catechumenate in order to become a member of the Catholic Church. Taking this step, she explained to me, would require
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Without the other faith and reason each ceases to be what its name would signify.
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Place of GraceRe “Grace on the Greyhound,” by James Martin, S.J. (9/1): I find it commendable that Father Martin decided to spend a few hours in solidarity with the poor by traveling by bus from Massachusetts to New York. I was a little disappointed, however, at where he decided to place
Editorials
Remarriage, Mercy and Law
The editors on Cardinal Kasper’s ‘modest proposal’
Faith in Focus
How one saint’s ancient insights are transforming today’s church
The real Francis is far more compelling and important than the imaginary one.
A Complicated Grief: Persevering in faith in the midst of suffering
When my cell phone rings early one sunny fall morning, I reach for it groggily, see that the call is from my mother and know that whatever she is about to say will be heartbreaking. I am still in bed in my pajamas, and my mom tells me that Marian Elizabeth has been born. Everything…
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The Spirit of Life
‘Aquinas on the Beginning and End of Human Life,’ by Fabrizio Amerini
War Stories
‘In the Wolf’s Mouth,’ by Adam Foulds
Almost Forgotten Heroes
‘Divided Friends,’ by William L. Portier
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Friends are the New Family: A pioneering sitcom turns 20
This month Friends turns 20. When I was that age, 20 years ago, I lay on the hardwood floor of my first apartment on Chicago’s North Side with my own group of friends and cynically watched NBC’s newest collection of beautiful people trying to be funny. As we made sarcastic comments to on
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Do It God’s Way
And more much more than this I did it my way rdquo sang Frank Sinatra There is something life-affirming about doing it ldquo my way rdquo charting one rsquo s own path following one rsquo s conscience and talents and not compromising one rsquo s values along the way But when it comes to th
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Continental Shift
‘The faith is Europe,” Hilaire Belloc claimed a century ago, “and Europe is the faith.” To say the same today might provoke laughter or confusion. When we think of Europe, is the first thing that comes to mind Christianity?Now, quick—say the first word that pops into yo
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Advance care planning discussions should be ongoing part of doctor-patient relationship.
Faith
How one saint’s ancient insights are transforming today’s church
The real Francis is far more compelling and important than the imaginary one.
A Complicated Grief: Persevering in faith in the midst of suffering
When my cell phone rings early one sunny fall morning, I reach for it groggily, see that the call is from my mother and know that whatever she is about to say will be heartbreaking. I am still in bed in my pajamas, and my mom tells me that Marian Elizabeth has been born. Everything…
Generation Faith
Awake, Sleeper!: The spirituality of the snooze button
It happened on the first Sunday I ever spent in my college dormitory, my first residence of my own, away from my family. I was asleep when my alarm went off at exactly 7 a.m. Instead of getting up, I hit the snooze button. This may not seem particularly momentous, but it was a first…
Philosopher's Notebook
Erasing Conscience
The traditional duty of the doctor to promote the actual good can crumble under a consumerist indenture to the patient’s will.
Signs Of the Times
News Briefs
In a technological and cultural first, Pope Francis joined a Google Hangout, video chatting with young people across five continents, including a student in the gang-infested neighborhood of La Campanera, in San Salvador, on Sept. 4. • The cause for canonization of Archbishop Fulton Sheen has b
ISIS Terror Tracked
Amnesty International has issued a devastating report detailing summary executions, child abductions, sexual assaults, forced religious conversions and “ethnic cleansing on a historic scale” committed by the Islamic State militant group as it swept across northern Iraq from its base of o
National ‘Fight for $15’ Movement Launches Fast Food Protests
‘I’m doing this for my future, for my sons to have a union,” Jamne Izquierdo said, holding up a sign demanding a better wage outside a McDonald’s restaurant on 8th Avenue and 56th Street in New York on Sept. 4. Izquierdo has worked at a different Manhattan McDonald’s fa
Reforms for Mentally Ill Inmates
The State of California’s Corrections Department will end its policy of isolating mentally ill inmates for up to 23 hours a day and instead move them into specialized housing, where they will receive more humane treatment.The move, announced on Aug. 29, comes after U.S. District Court Judge La
Looking for the New Shepherd: Chicago Catholics express hopes for next bishop
Chicago Catholics are as feisty and independent as the wind that famously whips across this city from its lakeshore. In decades past, they enthusiastically embraced the labor and Catholic Worker movements. At some parishes today, lay people give sub-radar reflections at Sunday Mass.“Catholics
Albania Harmony
Pope Francis’ choice of Albania as the destination of his first international trip in Europe reflects his trademark pastoral approach: head to the peripheries; bring healing to the suffering. But his Sept. 21 visit to the poor, Muslim-majority nation also will highlight, to a world increasingl
Vatican Dispatch
China: Yes and No to Francis
Some Chinese youths risked their security to see the pope and attend Asian Youth Day.
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