Our weekly feature article from Mirada Global The access to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation is a basic human right declared the UN General Assembly in 2010 Yet less consensus exists generally on the question whether the operation of water supply should be organized privately or by p

If you plan to be in New York City next week this is sure to be a lively conversation the Fordham University Center on Religion and Culture is sponsoring a panel discussion on faith and political responsibility Faithful Citizenship II Keeping the Faith in a Season of Spin will be held on the L

From Mirada Global a look at the surprising similarities between Andean culture and the Christian message La Paz ndash In Andean worldview time is notlinear that is it doesn rsquo t conceive a beginning and an end but the coexistence with the past and the future which takes place in the prese

Just posted to our Web site a call for the canonication of Pope John Paul I nbsp On the Third Sunday of Easter Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed John Paul II a blessed a milestone in the late pope rsquo s journey to sainthood The speed at which Karol Wojtyla rsquo s cause for canonization has progr

One of the pleasures of my job is combing through America s archives It is especially interesting to read the editors analyses of political events What continues to surprise me is the breadth of the subjects they wrote about That and the sharpness of their opinions mdash these gentlemen did not

From Criterio magazine via Mirada Global Cuba has lived a long period of shortages and economic difficulties First it was the blockade which was tempered by the era of collaboration with the socialist world Then came a special period after the fall of the socialist bloc up until the alliance wi

A report on an intriguing Jesuit initiative via Mirada Global The World Youth Day WYD is the major worldwide gathering of catholic young people initiated by Pope John Paul II in Rome in 1984 Since then Buenos Aires Santiago de Compostela Czestochowa Denver Manila Paris Rome again in 2000

Just posted to our Web site David Hollenbach S J on what South Sudan can learn from Catholic teaching as it struggles to set a course for the future The Catholic community in South Sudan especially shares the responsibility to help shape the life of the new country Catholics are a sizable part

Deacon Tom Cornell a longtime friend of the magazine and a member of the Catholic Worker sends this homily from from St Mary rsquo s Church in Marlboro N Y He preached on September 18 the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Today rsquo s Gospel reading is not a recommendation for the reform of labo

Just posted to our Web site Maryann Cusimano Love remembers 9 11 when her weekly class at the Pentagon was interrupted by the terrorist attack On Tuesday September 11 2001 I set out to teach class in the Pentagon like I did every week Our class that semester was about emerging security threa