Early Wednesday morning, the city council passed a measure that enables housing cooperatives to form in Boulder’s neighborhoods.
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Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Five Stories You May Have Missed in 2016
Here are a few pieces America editors wish had made it on to those top-ten lists but didn’t:
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
U.S. Bishops urge legislation to protect ‘Dreamers’ from deportation
Bishop Vásquez points out that there are more than 740,000 young people who have received and benefitted from DACA.
Posted inFaith, Signs Of the Times
Every church tells a story. (Even those with brutalist architecture.)
We become aware there is a much bigger story at work.
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Christ and Culture: Behind the debate about ‘public theology’
The inspiration for public theology lies in the Catholic belief that the church has a role in transforming the wider society under the influence of the Gospel.
Posted inFaith, In All Things
Here are the biggest Catholic stories of 2016.
Stopping gun violence, supporting a minimum wage hike, Pope Francis and Donald Trump square off at the border and much more!
Posted inArts & Culture, In All Things
What do Graham Greene, Flannery O’Connor and Caravaggio have in common? Their Ignatian imagination.
‘Imagination is a spiritual reality that can draw us toward the good, the true and the beautiful.’
Posted inFaith, News
Search for peace this Christmas, says USCCB president
Christians must visit the manger, Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo said.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
The Catholic Church doesn’t bar all gay men from priesthood, Vatican newspaper suggests
Father Louis J. Cameli writes that the church’s instructions on candidates for the priesthood do not explicitly prohibit gay men.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Pope Francis on feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe: ‘Yes to life, no to exclusion’
In his homily for the feast, Pope Francis denounced the exclusion of so many people “from the train of life.”