Loading...
Loading...
Click here if you don’t see subscription options
Surviving in America

August 17-24, 2015

Vol. 213 / No. 4

Subscribers and donors have access to the digital edition.
Please log in to continue.

Log in
Signs Of the Times

A reliquary discovered in the grave of Gabriel Archer, a founding member of Jamestown has raised the possibility that there were crypto-Catholics among these early settlers. David Collins, S.J., associate professor and director of doctoral studies in the history department at Georgetown University w

Signs Of the Times
Judith ValenteAugust 06, 2015

If you attend Mass in Chicago, you might encounter a blind lector reading the day’s Scripture from a Braille lectionary while accompanied at the altar by a guide dog. You might receive communion from a eucharistic minister seated in a wheelchair. Through the SPRED (Special Religious Education)

Decision on gay Scout leaders
Signs Of the Times

Concerns about a potential humanitarian emergency were mounting in late July as people of Haitian descent began to be forced out of the Dominican Republic and into tent cities along the border with Haiti. • A decision by the Boy Scouts of America on July 27 to allow gay troop leaders and employ

Signs Of the Times

As hidden-camera videos of Planned Parenthood staff strategizing to market fetal tissue and organs continued to be released on the Internet, rallies took place in 65 cities across the nation. Pro-life advocates from across the Salt Lake Valley in Utah demonstrated peacefully in front of a Planned Pa

Signs Of the Times

U.S. Catholic leaders have called on Congress to ensure that the federal minimum wage is raised to “improve the financial security of millions of American families.” In a letter, dated July 28, Bishop Thomas Wenski, chair of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human

Vatican Dispatch
Gerard O’ConnellAugust 06, 2015

Pope Francis is convinced that the Holy Spirit is active in popular movements.