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December 11, 2017

Vol. 217 / No. 13

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Students tend to family in need at Universidad Sagrado Corazón in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Photo: J.D. Long-García)
Politics & Society Dispatches
J.D. Long GarcíaNovember 14, 2017

Students “have lifted up this whole university, challenging us to go out to the margins, like Pope Francis asks.”

Giant machines dig for brown coal at the open-cast mining Garzweiler in front of a power plant near the city of Grevenbroich in western Germany in April 2014. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
Politics & Society Dispatches
Kevin ClarkeNovember 17, 2017

“What we need to do is just continue to live out the challenge of ‘Laudato Si’,’ which is to examine our relationship with the earth, with God and with each other to see how we can become better stewards of this gift of the earth.”

Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago speaks Nov. 13 during the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
Faith Dispatches
Michael J. O’LoughlinNovember 17, 2017

Cardinal Bernardin’s consistent ethic of life could be helpful as the church grapples with issues like migration, health care and even taxes, some bishops say.

Image: iStock, (CNS photo/Jim Lo Scalzo, EPA) Composite: America
Politics & Society Features
Bryan N. MassingaleNovember 20, 2017

What ought to be the Ignatian contribution to the fight for racial justice, given our mission and our values?

Faith Features
Nichole M. FloresDecember 01, 2017

My grandmother embodied a distinctly Guadalupan presence: prayerful, patient, joyful and strong. Whether nurturing a child, a friendship or a garden, she knew how to help things grow.

Faith Faith in Focus
Robert I. CraigNovember 20, 2017

I have been trying with all my heart—with all my mind, with all my soul, to live peaceably with a terror that has been grafted onto me.

Arts & Culture Books
Liam CallananOctober 31, 2017

Fiction moves us, engages us, finds for us truths we may not have recognized when first presented to us as fact. Fiction teaches us agility, the importance of leaping from word to meaning, and the pleasure that’s to be had in doing so.