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Southern Africa’s bishops warned elections would be “dangerously premature” if held this year.

Despite the great potential for diversity to serve as a clarion call to break down harmful boundaries between people there still exists as part of the human condition a longing for the familiar and the comfortable We find people associating with one another based on common tasks beliefs or opport

Has partisanship and politicization seeped into the church from U.S. culture?

In a divided church, the work of the Catholic Common Ground Initiative remains as important as ever.
Shortly after the recent elections, America published on its Web site (11/15) an article titled “The Center Did Not Hold,” by Steve Schneck, which originally appeared on the site of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good. The article’s thesis was that the church’s efforts

This article is reprinted courtesy of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good.

Yeats is on my mind, following last evening's election returns. Remember the line? "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold..."

BARCELONA Ask an observer about Spanish religion and politics and most people will mention two Spains one left-wing and anti-Catholic the other Catholic and politically conservative That polarization existed long before the Civil War and was reinforced by Franco wrapping himself in the flag
Powerful stuff and required reading from Peter Steinfels over at Commonweal on the leave-taking of Catholics from their church nbsp Why have I spent so much time on those of Catholic upbringing who have left the church First because the numbers are not trivial to put it mildly ldquo Catholi

While much of importance is included in PBS' 'God in America,' much is left out.

A conscience may be certain, but that does not mean it is correct.