Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Children’s books: why would a senior citizen like me be reading them? And yet I recently read several at quite a clip. This is because a Xaverian brother named Leonard, who teaches reading at a Jesuit middle school near my parish, lent me half a dozen. Leonard often tells me about them during
Letters
Letters
Life to Come
As director of the Office of Prayer and Worship for the Diocese of Albany, I found Terry Golway’s essay It’s Your Funeral (6/5) disturbing. I can only speak for the Diocese of Albany; but like diocesan officials in many areas of the country, we have found it necessary and helpful to establish guidelines…
Editorials
Housing Discrimination
Racism in the United States can take many forms. Some are as obvious as slurs shouted from cars or hate crimes; others are less apparent. One of racism’s covert guises is housing discrimination. In April the National Fair Housing Alliance released its fair housing trends report, Unequal Opport
Faith and Reason
Peter Faber: A Jesuit Saint Too Little Known
Peter Faber may best have exemplified what a missionary to the church of the Reformation era needed.
Books
Descent Into Hell
My local newspaper’s front page headline read Barbaric, a word uttered by the director of the Iraqi Defense Ministry’s operations room
The Medium and the Message
Megan McKenna is a storyteller Even when she interprets someone else rsquo s story she uses the medium of story to do so In On Your Mark she tells a story about a Gospel story about Jesus By employing the familiar summons to a race mdash ldquo On your mark Get set Go rdquo mdash…
The Struggle Continues
This volume is crammed with meticulously researched biblical historical theological and sociological information on order and ministry in the Catholic Church The author Kenan Osborne O F M is professor emeritus at the Franciscan School of Theology in Berkeley Calif and the author of severa
Into the Dark
Shortly before her death in 1997 the renowned English-born American poet Denise Levertov published two volumes of selected poems The Stream and the Sapphire brought together 38 poems on Religious Themes from Levertov rsquo s large and varied corpus It traced in the poet rsquo s words my slow mo
The Word
The Sign of the Prophet
When we participate in the Eucharist, we place ourselves in the history of God’s people.
A Shepherd for Gods People
In the world of the Bible sheep and shepherds were common sights so it was not unusual for ancient Near Eastern kings and rulers to adopt the image and title of shepherd That was natural and even irresistible since shepherds care for their flocks provide leadership and direction for them and pr
Current Comment
Current Comment
Sudanese Smoke ScreenVictims in Darfur of rape, murder and the burning of villages by government-sanctioned janjaweed militia have yet to see perpetrators brought to justice. Nor is it likely that this will happen, given the Sudanese government’s reluctance to hold them accountable. A day afte
Faith
Peter Faber: A Jesuit Saint Too Little Known
Peter Faber may best have exemplified what a missionary to the church of the Reformation era needed.
The Sign of the Prophet
When we participate in the Eucharist, we place ourselves in the history of God’s people.
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Signs of the Times
McCarrick Warns Against Partisanship in ChurchCardinal Theodore E. McCarrick sharply warned the U.S. bishops on June 15 that "the intense polarization and bitter battles of partisan politics may be seeping into [the] broader ecclesial life of our Catholic people and maybe even of our [bishops&r
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