Catholic Church

Judy Coode 8-01-2006
The Jesuit Volunteer Corps celebrates 50 years of changing lives through service.
Lucy Fuchs 8-01-2006

As a Catholic voter, I avidly read the articles about the Catholic vote (“Who Owns the ‘Catholic Vote’?” by Maurice Timothy Reidy, and “A Thorn in Both Their Sides,&rd

Rose Marie Berger 7-01-2006

Olive Branch. In April, 120 former Israel Defense Force soldiers and Palestinian militants publicly launched “Combatants for Peace,” a partnership of former enem

Jeff Carr 7-01-2006
'Remember you were once foreigners...'
David Batstone 7-01-2006
The archbishop is making global warming a personal challenge.

Roughly 40 percent of Catholics are reliable Republicans, and 40 percent are reliable Democrats. The rest could go either way. That makes Catholics the ultimate swing voters.

E.J. Dionne Jr. 6-01-2006

If the church causes discomfort only to one political party when both are in need of repentance, it is not being the church.

Marie Dennis 3-01-2005

Challenges to the church in the global South.

Heidi Schlumpf 3-01-2005

Sex abuse scandal, priest shortages, celibacy, ordaining women: The issues roiling the Catholic Church offer challenges - and hope? - for the future.

Richard Rohr 3-01-2005

The vatican's management problem.

Catholic reform movement Call To Action - a national 25,000-member group of laity, religious, and clergy-is challenging U.S.

Jim Forest 1-01-2005

Book Review: Dorothy Day: Portaits by Those Who Knew Her (Orbis Books: 2003).

Duane Shank 1-01-2005

The common good is one of the ultimate moral values.

Joe Nangle 6-01-2004
Has the Catholic Church learned anything?
In the diocese of Rapid City,

In the diocese of Rapid City, South Dakota, a group of Catholic priests decided to take action on behalf of both the victims and perpetrators of sexual abuse in the church. About 30 active and retired priests created an independent nonprofit called the Lazarus Fund, to which they are donating 5 percent of

Peter Steinfels 7-01-2003

Is the Catholic Church heading toward irreversible decline or is it on the verge of transformation?

Rose Marie Berger, 1-01-2003

Jesuit Father Richard T. McSorley, 88, a retired professor of peace studies at Georgetown University and longtime peace and social justice activist, died October 17, 2002.

Much grace and gratitude to you and Richard Rohr for "Beyond Crime and Punishment" (July-August 2002).

Joanne Callahan 9-01-2002

JIM RICE'S "SINS of the Fathers" and Rose Marie Berger's "Managing the Erotic Life" (May-June 2002) were much too coy about male supremacy's major role in maintaining sexual promiscuity and abuse in the church.