Although he termed it “the one non-issue of the campaign,” his priesthood was a major issue for the people of Rhode Island.
History
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Why do we pray to a God that allows the evil of the Holocaust?
If God does not exist, we waste our time, confessing our sins. If God does exist, our understanding of evil and our role in it is so small, so limited as to be worthy of contempt. But that’s not who God is.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Junípero Serra: A Not-Perfect Saint
‘Junípero Serra,’ by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
Posted inOf Many Things, Politics & Society
Of Many Things
No one should visit a presidential library expecting to see a balanced assessment.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
“I Walk Slowly, But I Never Walk Backward”: The Humanity of Abraham Lincoln
Perhaps the most important thing about Abraham Lincoln—and what makes him so enduring in the popular memory—was the plain fact that he was so human.
Posted inFaith
The Feminist Case Against Abortion: the pro-life roots of the women’s movement
Properly defined, feminism is a philosophy that embraces basic rights for all human beings without exception.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Saints Among Us
Robert Bartlett’s book will also be welcome to those who have experienced something of the power of the cult of the saints in their own time and place.
Posted inFaith, Features
The unlikely story of how the Jesuits were suppressed (and then restored)
Without Pius VII, it is fair to say, there would be no Society of Jesus today, no Jesuit schools, colleges or universities, no Jesuit retreat houses and no Jesuit periodicals.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Joseph Ratzinger: The local church and the universal church
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger responds to a 2001 America article by Cardinal Walter Kasper on the relationship between the universal church and local churches.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
A President for Peace: The deadly consequences of J.F.K.’s attempts at reconciliation
The day President John F. Kennedy was murdered, a Divine Word seminarian walked up the hill to our family’s apartment in Rome to tell my wife Sally and me the terrible news. Seeking wisdom, I wrote Dorothy Day.