October 12, 2009

Canon law and the continuity of papal leadership

A call for justice for the people of Gaza

The Vatican visitation prompts reflection on a religious divide.

Reflections on a transatlantic friendship

Enough Grinning and Groping One reason people sit apart during Mass (Current Comment, 9/28) is to avoid being frowned at for not holding hands and raising them during the Our Father, as if this empty pretense of community could somehow make up for the absence of a shared, vital attention to Christ

The church in Africa is experiencing the fastest growth in the history of Christianity.

As a French poet once said, Mary is the sea that no one exhausts.