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April 7, 2014

Vol. 210 / No. 12

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Site of mass graves in Butare, Rwanda
Vantage Point
The EditorsMarch 26, 2014

By the second Sunday of Easter, April 10, as the African Synod opened in Rome—the official title for this meeting is “The Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops”—details had just reached the outside world of the slaughter in Rwanda. Among those killed in the wave

Books
Claudio M. BurgaletaMarch 26, 2014

The Cursillo de Cristiandad is a nearly 60-year-old lay-led Catholic renewal movement with origins on the island of Mallorca Spain whose signature event is a 72-hour short course in Christianity The Cursillo movement was inaugurated in 1944 by Eduardo Bonn n Aguil a Mallorcan Catholic layman

Books

In Cheating Lessons, James Lang presents the good and bad news about cheating in higher education.

Books
Anthony F. Lang Jr.March 26, 2014

James Buchan’s new book, Days of God: the Revolution in Iran and its Consequence

Ralph Fiennes, Saoirse Ronan and Tony Revolori
Film
John P. McCarthyMarch 26, 2014

Wes Anderson’s ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’

Poetry
Donna PuccianiMarch 26, 2014

Snowflakes surprise us,small and aimless as we ourselves,so light they sift upwardsin random puppetry. Yesterday we arrived in Englandon the edge of April.Workers in orange suitshad de-iced the plane in Chicago. As we’d changed planesin Dublin, yellow hoses uncoiledon juddering machi

The Word
John W. MartensMarch 26, 2014

The Gospel of Matthew presents Palm Sunday in the context of one of the Gospel rsquo s many prophetic fulfillment citations which demonstrate that Jesus was the promised one who would establish the kingdom of God Matthew presents a free rendering of the prophecy from Zec 9 9 to explain Jesus rsquo