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The Weekly Dispatch
Nigerian bishop: Islamic jihad, not climate change, behind mass killing of Christians
“Tell me, how does climate change drive someone to hack a person to death with a machete?”
Of Many Things
When Pope Francis issued ‘Laudato Si’,’ everyone paid attention. What about now?
In issuing “Laudato Si’,” nine years ago, Pope Francis made climate change a central issue in the church’s social teaching. Are we still paying attention?
Your Take
Is the media responding to—or creating—voter concerns about President Biden’s age?
Robert David Sullivan’s piece about media coverage of President Joe Biden’s age invited a variety of responses from our readers.
Editorials
Most voters oppose a Biden-Trump rematch. Our primary system made it all but inevitable.
In a year that is supposedly a test of “small-d” democracy, the voice of the voters seems fainter than ever.
Short Take
The Synod needs more parents
The greatest gift the church can give to our youth is to better serve their parents. This would begin with listening to us.
Dispatches
‘We will not be intimidated’: Bishop Seitz responds to Texas attempt to shut down Catholic nonprofit
“This is not about politics,” Bishop Seitz said. “It’s about the Gospel.”
This Chicago chef teaches inmates to cook. Pope Francis told him to keep going.
He said he told the pope, “I could spend all day here talking to you,” and Francis replied, “So could I!”
Analysis: Britain’s bizarre, costly and cruel plan to deport migrants to Rwanda
Condemned by the Jesuit Refugee Service UK as a “cruel plan” that “violates human dignity,” the policy authorizes deporting people who come to the United Kingdom in search of safety to Rwanda.
Features
Where Have All the Volunteers Gone?: Behind the Decline of After-College Service
Fewer young people are choosing full-time service after college. How will volunteer organizations adapt?
Racism, migration and exploitation: the bitter history of Haitian workers in the D.R.
Sugar is not the only industry that exploits Haitian workers in the Dominican Republic, but it offers a unique lens through which to understand racism and xenophobia.
Faith and Reason
The Eucharist is the ‘source and summit’ of Christian life. What does that really mean?
Is our intense focus on the form of liturgical celebration placing a disproportionate emphasis upon the Eucharist as the summit of Christian life?
Faith in Focus
Father James Martin: How I fell in love with Ireland
My trip was short but introduced me to faithful people, powerful history and a beautiful land.
How Julian of Norwich’s writings on suffering have helped me as a cancer patient
“If we come to understand that God suffers alongside us as one who truly knows what it means to suffer, our anger morphs into love and our suffering mysteriously becomes a means of transformation.”
Books
Review: Paul Lynch’s new novel offers complexity, not certitude
Paul Lynch’s ‘Prophet Song’ was inspired by the Syrian Civil War and the plight of those seeking refuge from the destruction and death occurring in Syria.
Review: An anthology of Jimmy Breslin, chronicler of New York’s best (and worst)
Some of Jimmy Breslin’s best work has now been collected and edited by one of Breslin’s true heirs, The New York Times correspondent Dan Barry.
Review: The editor who transformed religious publishing
Stephen Prothero’s enriching book, ‘God the Bestseller,’ takes the reader on a journey through the publisher Eugene Exman’s life and works.
Novelist Mary Beth Keane finds grace in the ‘achingly ordinary’
Mary Beth Keane has staked her claim as a creator of subtle but poignant storytelling.
The ghosts of James Joyce in Edward P. Jones’s writing
Both Joyce’s and Jones’s stories move us through tragic epiphanies that leave the soul, pained by paralysis, on the threshold of conversion.
Review: In ‘Reading Genesis,’ Marilynne Robinson treats the Bible like a great work of literature
In her latest book, ‘Reading Genesis,’ Marilynne Robinson writes of a God that is in love with humanity. In all our flaws and folly, power and glory, she insists, “Human beings are at the center of it all.”
Poetry
Brotherhood
i don’t have a brother he was me
Calling the Colors
The palest lavender is “Guardian Angel,”
Last Take
Dorothy Day’s ‘Letter to an Agnostic’
From 1934: Servant of God Dorothy Day pens a letter to an agnostic friend on the supposed “morbidness” of religion.
Faith
Dorothy Day’s ‘Letter to an Agnostic’
From 1934: Servant of God Dorothy Day pens a letter to an agnostic friend on the supposed “morbidness” of religion.
Where Have All the Volunteers Gone?: Behind the Decline of After-College Service
Fewer young people are choosing full-time service after college. How will volunteer organizations adapt?
Father James Martin: How I fell in love with Ireland
My trip was short but introduced me to faithful people, powerful history and a beautiful land.
A Catholic alternative to diversity, equity and inclusion in education
Catholic social teaching can provide a stronger framework for antiracism programs.
The Eucharist is the ‘source and summit’ of Christian life. What does that really mean?
Is our intense focus on the form of liturgical celebration placing a disproportionate emphasis upon the Eucharist as the summit of Christian life?
The Synod needs more parents
The greatest gift the church can give to our youth is to better serve their parents. This would begin with listening to us.
This Chicago chef teaches inmates to cook. Pope Francis told him to keep going.
He said he told the pope, “I could spend all day here talking to you,” and Francis replied, “So could I!”
How Julian of Norwich’s writings on suffering have helped me as a cancer patient
“If we come to understand that God suffers alongside us as one who truly knows what it means to suffer, our anger morphs into love and our suffering mysteriously becomes a means of transformation.”
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