Cardinal Arthur Roche leads the Vatican department responsible for governing the church’s liturgical practices and sacramental rites.
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Posted inFaith, Features
A little-known Jesuit’s battle for racial justice in the Deep South
How Louis J. Twomey, S.J., overcame his own prejudice to become one of the most outspoken white allies of New Orleans’s Black community.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
The End of Joy in College Education
The time is ripe for rethinking the assumption that the purpose of acquiring a college degree is to snag a job at graduation.
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Exclusive: Martin Scorsese on ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ the American Dream and his new film about Jesus
The struggle for faith ‘is a struggle from which everything else emanates,’ says the storied director.
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Bill Russell, K.C. Jones and the Black players who made basketball history at San Francisco’s Jesuit university
Men’s college basketball’s finest squad did not come from one of the N.C.A.A. powerhouses of the past three decades, but from the University of San Francisco, where Bill Russell led the team to consecutive national championships in 1955 and 1956.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Is politics bad? It depends on your view of human nature.
The headlines suggest that our political systems are incapable of solving big problems. What if we temper our expectations and realize that politics can bring out both the best and worst of humans?
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
The hidden costs of ‘peak TV’
Television as a popular medium died 25 years ago. It’s time to mourn.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
The Climate Refugees of Honduras
Small farmers here in the middle of Central America’s dry corridor are almost totally reliant on rainfall to water their crops. As those rains become less reliable because of climate change, crop failures and then migration are the results.
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How a Catholic ecology center in Wisconsin strives to change the world by changing hearts
The C.E.C. demonstrates a profound, organic Catholicism that places people within “the wholeness of creation” and asks them “to look and feel and touch and know it.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
This Irish Christmas carol was once nearly forgotten. Now it’s newly famous.
I have learned to take Christmas carols seriously and to anticipate the epiphanies they may bear in my spiritual life.