CTA calls for solidarity to support church worker justice
Tom BoswellDuring Call to Action's 2015 conference, about 30 former and active church workers shared stories of how they and others laboring for the church had been fired, ostracized and maltreated.
View ArticleConfession is about the mind-boggling mercy of God
Dennis BakerSept. 25 was one of those spectacular autumn days in New York. The heat of the summer had faded away, and a brilliant, blue, cloudless sky greeted the world. At about 1 p.m., I walked out...
View ArticleLessons of age as I fall into being my mother
Melissa Musick Nussbaum"Pride goeth before a fall" is a Bible verse I learned before I fully understood it. Now I understand and can add to it. "Pride goeth before, and sometimes after, a fall."
View ArticleNobel Peace Prize spotlights National Dialogue Quartet
Stephen ZunesAwarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Tunisian civil society groups that supported Tunisia's transition to democracy illustrates that Arab peoples are quite capable of navigating their nation...
View ArticleBringing God to a detention center
Julie GunterEsmeralda Saltos, the designated pastoral minister to the Catholic population at Tacoma's Northwest Detention Center, visits immigrant detainees as a work of mercy.
View ArticleA comeback from the depths of anguish
Colman McCarthyColumn: If you ever have a yen for comeback stories, and who doesn't, I have one for you.
View ArticleCatholic church can aid shift in treatment of mental illness
Vinnie RotondaroMental health professionals say a tectonic shift is underway in the treatment of mental illness, and faith-based advocates for the mentally ill say the Catholic church is uniquely...
View ArticlePromises, promises
Angie O'GormanIn a cold and fallow season of waiting, watching and wondering, it is not surprising to find ourselves reflecting on the past and looking toward the future, taking stock and hoping for...
View ArticleEasing the way for others
Patricia Datchuck SánchezWherever construction or demolition is taking place, there is often a crowd of onlookers whose curiosity has drawn them to the site. They look on, usually silently, as gigantic...
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The 'origin myth' of Christian America
Timothy KellyINVENTING A CHRISTIAN AMERICA: THE MYTH OF THE RELIGIOUS FOUNDING By Steven K. Green Published by Oxford University Press, $29.95
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'Sacred activism' reorients monasticism
Chris StaysniakTHE NEW MONASTICISM: AN INTERSPIRITUAL MANIFESTO FOR CONTEMPLATIVE LIVING By Rory McEntee and Adam Bucko Published by Orbis Books
View ArticleLuminaries dialogue in Florence's redesigned cathedral museum
Menachem WeckerTravel: The collection of Florence’s cathedral museum, the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, makes it hard not to walk through the building starstruck.
View ArticleFinding Bergoglio in Buenos Aires
Catalina CepparroTravel: Since last year, the Buenos Aires tourism agency has been offering a free three-hour circuit tracing the pope’s life.
View ArticleA story told in stone and light
Toni-Ann OrtizTravel: The La Sagrada Familia, an art nouveau church in Barcelona, Catalonia, in Spain, broke ground in 1882, but construction continues to this day
View ArticleThe joy of mini-trips
Michael LeachVickie and I began to discover the joy of making mini-trips on our own, from an hour a day to a whole day within a 10-mile radius of our home.
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