One monk’s response to the AIDS epidemic
Beauty is not the first word that comes to mind when most people think of the AIDS epidemic.
A Sacred Calling: Recovering what politics is—and is not
The pope challenges all of us to rethink our relationship to politics.
Of Many Things
At 87, Ethel Kennedy is still ready to fight for justice
Wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a picture of Senator Kennedy and Cesar Chavez, Mrs. Kennedy joined the Coalition of Immokalee Workers at their protest.
Letters
Reply All: America’s readers respond
Join the conversation.
Editorials
Editors: the Resurrection calls us to be transformed each day
The Resurrection is not only about new life but also about reconciliation and union
Faith in Focus
Did Jesus get ‘hangry’?
The Christos, for a skinny guy, sure was interested in good things to eat.
Aging With Ignatius: Applying the Spiritual Exercises in the later stages of life
The Exercises are about seeing, loving and following Jesus.
Ideas
His Final Act: The Catholic connections of Tennessee Williams
The Catholic connections of Tennessee Williams
Books
A Book Reborn
‘Lord of the World,’ by Robert Hugh Benson
The Commodification Curse: review of ‘University Ethics,’ by James F. Keenan, S.J.
‘University Ethics,’ by James F. Keenan, S.J.
Power for Sale
‘Dark Money,’ by Jane Mayer
Poetry
Emmaus
Spring is his burden, and the night, a robe: lividas poppies in a roadside wrap, facing the dying weather.Spring is the furrow on his shoulder swathe,between the neck and forearm. Thus was the intimation right: a savior comesout of Jerusalem, with pericardial threadto make a heart’s claim
The Word
The Witness of Life: Reflection on the Second Sunday of Easter
Christian apologists will sometimes argue that the truth of the Gospel is proven by the willingness of Jesus rsquo disciples to die for their faith in Christ The apostles were indeed willing to die for the truth of the Gospel but if we grant that willingness to die for a religion a movement or
Columns
We need a politics in which politicians matter less
I’ll come out and say it: The winner of the election should not matter.
Current Comment
China recently passed its first law against domestic violence.
The new law makes it easier for abuse victims to obtain restraining orders.
A martyr in Honduras
The handling of Berta Cáceres’s murder will be a test of the Honduran security and justice systems.
Editors: Investing in public transit good for planet and the poor
Economists tend to agree that a tax on oil is a smart idea.
Philosopher's Notebook
Why do we murder each other in the name of God?
This is not a Muslim or a Christian or a Jewish or a pagan Greek problem.
Signs Of the Times
‘Enmity’ in Chicago
The morning after a rally for Donald J. Trump in Chicago was canceled for fear of violence, the city’s Catholic archbishop warned that “enmity and animosity” are hallmarks of today’s politics and a “cancer” that is threatening the nation’s civic health. &ldq
Women’s Voices
“Women are knocking on the door of the church…. But I fear a generation will come that will stop knocking,” Dr. Carolyn Woo, president and C.E.O. of Catholic Relief Services, said at the Vatican on March 8 during a panel discussion organized by Voices of Faith, a Catholic women&rs
Sentiments harden as Europe’s refugee crisis drags on
More people will come. Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan are not yet empty.
A Press for Genocide Declaration For Christans Trapped Under ISIS
The Obama administration is nearing a decision on whether to declare formally that atrocities by the Islamic State against religious minorities, including Christians, constitute genocide. As impatient lawmakers and religious groups step up calls for action, Secretary of State John Kerry may not make
Who Killed Berta Cáceres?
Friends, family members and activists associated with the slain Honduran Berta Cáceres are calling for an independent investigation into her killing through the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
News Brief
“The most massive failure of the Catholic community at all levels in the past 20 years has been to address the question of our ongoing involvement in the Middle East,” Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego said on March 7. • The Netherlands-based group Open Doors International urged
‘Horrendous’ Human Rights Abuses
A U.N. report describing sweeping crimes, including the burning alive of children and disabled people and fighters being allowed to rape women as payment, shows South Sudan is facing “one of the most horrendous human rights situations in the world,” the U.N. human rights chief said on Ma
Vatican Dispatch
J.R.S. aims to support education of 220,000 refugees by the year 2020.
Only 36 percent of refugee children go to secondary school.
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