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Signs Of the Times
Despite Pleas, Christians Say They Can't Go Home Again
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources

An election victory for Iraq’s more secular parties is not tempting Iraqi Christian refugees to return home,

Signs Of the Times
Colombia Captures Paramilitary Priest
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources

Colombian authorities said a Catholic priest led paramilitary groups that committed rapes and massacres.

Twelve Things the Bishops Have Learned From the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis
Blase J. Cupich

The Catholic bishops of the United States have learned many lessons from the sex abuse crisis. These twelve are among the most important.

Editorials
Pilgrim People, Part I
The Editors
Even in high places we Catholics are in the company of sinners as well as saints.
Quantum Spirituality
William J. O'Malley
The physical sciences, once believed to be antithetical to God, can exorcize our attempts to box in this awesome energy.
Letters
Letters
Fiat Lux! Re “Do Not Despair,” by Archbishop John Quinn (Online, 5/3): Rahner’s prophetically probing question, “Why would a modern man want to become and to remain a priest?” holds the key to the future solution. Only when the church chooses to transform itself from a
The Word
A Uniting Love
Barbara E. Reid
Seventh Sunday of Easter (C), May 16, 2010
Film
Boys and Girls in America: The pop comic charms of 'Kick-Ass'
Jim McDermott

At the heart of “Kick-Ass” lies a fulsome rage directed at apathy and cowardice.

Signs Of the Times
Bishops Challenge Arizona Law
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources

Bishop Gerald Kicanas said the new law “does not address the critical need for border security to confront drug smuggling...and human trafficking.”

Signs Of the Times
U.K. Bishops Call For Penance
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources

The bishops of England and Wales asked Catholics to carry out acts of penance to help atone for clerical abuse crimes.

Columns
Of Many Things
Peter Schineller
Computers and iPhones, bless the Lord!
Columns
Resurrection Redux
Kyle T. Kramer
History--human, ecological and cosmic--must be the hotbed for hope.
Faith in Focus
Seeding Cyberspace
Lori Erickson
I have become a more thoughtful, disciplined Christian because of my blog.
Arts & CultureBooks
Mistaken Identity
Elias D. Mallon
John L. Esposito's new book deals not so much with the future of Islam as with its present.
Books
Hitlers Calculus
Thomas R. Murphy
A wise historians synthesis of his career work on World War II
Ideas
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Robert E. Lauder
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Signs Of the Times
'New Evangelization' Comes to the Curia
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources

Pope Benedict XVI is planning to create a department charged with overseeing the “re-evangelization” of traditionally Christian countries.

In All Things
Reflections on the Generation X "Midlife Crisis"
Tom Beaudoin
Today a friend and fellow born-in-1969er sent me the new article by critic A O Scott in the New York Times on the midlife crisis of Generation X or more specifically the Generation X male Let me immediately add that I presume that this material will only be potentially interesting to those
In All Things
Meeting God in Friend & Stranger: Good News from the UK Bishops
Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
Cambridge MA A comment on my last blog was memorable ldquo Fr Looney seems to hold a fascination for everything but Catholicism rdquo Spelling is abominable these days But more importantly the writer seemed to juxtapose two disconnected fascinations one for things Catholic and one for o
In All Things
Everyday Mysticism
James Martin, S.J.
The third in a series Ever said to yourself I would believe in God if only I had some distinct experience of God In my last two posts I spoke not only of our innate desire for the divine as a call from God but also of some specific ways through which we can become aware of those God-given