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Books
Mar 16, 2009 issueThe first question that comes to mind about these two eminently sensible books is ldquo who reads them and why rdquo There must be an audience for the issues addressed Baker and O rsquo Malley rsquo s Leading With Kindness is one of an exhausting number of books on the topic Amazon lists 311 487
In All Things
The Obama administration has decided to repeal a last-minute Bush administration regulation granting wide protections to health care workers from being fired or otherwise penalized for a religiously based unwillingness to perform acts they find morally objectionable The decision is regrettable even
Barack Obama, FOCA & Catholic attitudes about abortion
In All Things
It is easy enough to understand how some pastors tend to ignore issues of poverty health care and peace in their preaching if they do not follow the common lectionary but instead choose at will the biblical text on which to preach The concern for personal holiness with a special focus on the ho
Letters
Dotcom I was most grateful for the article by George M. Anderson, S.J., about my play and DVD about Dorothy Day, “Fool for Christ” (Of Many Things, 11/3), but there was a misprint that I think needs to be noted.The last part of my Web site address was given incorrectly. It should have re
In All Things
In 1936 near the end of the election campaign a Roman Catholic priest gave a nationwide radio address endorsing Franklin Delano Roosevelt for re-election In this critical hour I urge you to use every effort at your command among your relatives friends and acquaintances in support of Franklin D
The WordTwenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), Sept. 21, 2008
“Are you envious because I am generous?” (Mt 20:15)
Politics & Society
Books
Aug 04, 2008 issueMissing from most of the national immigration debate has been the humanitarian aspects of the migration phenomenon.
Letters
Dumb Brutes
Regarding Stafford Betty’s “Letter to a Reluctant Atheist” (4/14): It is very difficult to conceive of contemplative experience divorced from any theological construct. After all, human nature is rational. We strive to find answers to our fundamental questions, to find meaning in and around us. To experience anything at all without finding meaning or adequately understanding what has been experienced amounts to life in the animal kingdom.
Joanna Ionescu
FaithOf Many Things
The pope visits Yankee Stadium, and other sacred moments in secular spaces.