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'We Have a Lot of Work to Do'

February 16, 2015

Vol. 212 / No. 5

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Books
Jon M. SweeneyFebruary 04, 2015

'Aimless Love,' by Billy Collins, 'Blue Horses,' by Mary Oliver and 'Dylan Thomas,' edited by Hannah Ellis

OLD CHUMS. Alan Cumming and the cast of “Cabaret”
Theater
Rob Weinert-KendtFebruary 04, 2015

A show that skewers show business strikes a slippery bargain with its audience, and it can backfire. While we may smile knowingly at its insights into backstage chicanery and the cynicism of producers, and enjoy its winking parodies of other, implicitly lesser shows, a piece of entertainment intende

The Word
John W. MartensFebruary 04, 2015

Many theological reasons for Jesus rsquo baptism have been proposed explaining it as a sacramental model for the church an act of solidarity with sinful humanity or ldquo a manifestation of his self-emptying rdquo Catechism of the Catholic Church No 1224 but any answer must stress that ld

Current Comment
The EditorsFebruary 04, 2015

The late Rev. Richard McBrien said he didn't "hold things back.” We are richer for it.

Of Other Things
Edward W. Schmidt, S.J.February 04, 2015

Ash Wednesday’s marked foreheads represent far more than personal piety.

THE CHURCH IS IN THE BISHOP. Pope Francis presents a pallium in St. Peter’s Basilica last June to Archbishop Leonard P. Blair of Hartford, Conn.
Signs Of the Times
Gerard O’ConnellFebruary 04, 2015

Pope Francis has decided that the public ceremony of investiture of metropolitan archbishops with the pallium will henceforth take place in the prelates’ home dioceses, not in the Vatican as has been the case under recent pontiffs.He believes that in this way the ceremony “will greatly f

Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, speaks as Monica Maggioni and Anna Maria Tarantola look on during a press conference at the Vatican Feb. 2. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Signs Of the Times

Violence against women, cultural pressures regarding women’s physical appearance, attitudes that subjugate women or that ignore male-female differences and the growing alienation of women from the church in some parts of the world are themes the Pontifical Council for Culture is set to explore