From our archives, 2003.

When I returned last fall to New York City after 30 years away, what demanded the most adjustment for me was the absence of light. "Welcome to New York," I was told. The deprivation of daylight is one of the things New York apartment-dwellers have to endure.

Each year the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences announces the incorporation of new members. This year’s list of honorary fellows includes the world-renowned Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez, O.P., who is best known for his book A Theology of Liberation (Span. 1971,

After nine years in Communist prisons and labor camps in Vietnam, Joseph Nguyen Doan emerged with his faith not only intact but deepened, and with a determination to continue serving his people in his native land. A Jesuit, he is now the episcopal vicar for religious in the archdiocese of Ho Chi Min

Why and how did the celibate state became a requirement for ordination?