The plight of church workers in GIFs
Young Voices: Let's take a look at how the church treats its workers in a popular Internet format.
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The 'Catholic 7,' men's basketball and higher education
Young Voices: Success in the new Big East conference could mean big things for the "Catholic 7" who have gone their own way.
Boston Marathon tragedy illuminates importance of love, community
We are a resurrection people. Yet this Easter season, I am finding myself choking back tears each time I try to sing alleluia.
Child-rearing, natural law and same-sex marriage at the Supreme Court
Young Voices: One of the arguments for regulating marriage is an interest in regulating child-rearing. But what does natural law say?
Alternative spring break brings Easter triduum experience to students
I remember the first time the local newspaper reported "spring ache" when hundreds of thousands of high school and college students came pouring into the New Orleans area to spend their spring breaks in the most unconventional of ways: helping to gut, drywall, paint, clean and rebuild the neighborhoods.
Can Pope Francis summon the necessary courage?
Young Voices: Joseph of Arimathea found courage to ask for the body of Jesus after his crucifixion. Will Pope Francis have courage to care for the crucified children of our faith?
Spanish-speaking pope an inspiring look at things to come
Young Voices: It's refreshing to hear the new pope speak Spanish, a language currently and historically ridiculed and eliminated in schools across the United States.
The unfailing hope of progressive Catholics
I just came back from lunch when a co-worker scurried to my cubicle.
"White smoke," she said. "There's white smoke."
My feet had a mind of their own as I ran to the nearest television, absolutely transfixed. I remained glued to the news coverage, with the Latin names of who I thought were likely choices on a Post-it note in front of me (Georgium wasn't on the list). My pulse was racing. My stomach was in knots.
Bearded popes, forgotten popes and papal children: papal trivia in this popeless time
Young Voices: When was the last time a man with a beard headed the church? Who's the most forgotten pope? These answers and more.
'You say that I am': Pilate, Christ and truth in Lent
A year ago, I began my Lenten column with Pilate's expansive, existential question to the sentenced Christ: "What is truth?" Back in the church season in which we grapple with the paradoxical salvific agony of Christ's suffering, it seems impossible not to return to the question on which John's Gospel hinges, the question that in my mind marks the most profound departure from the style of everything in the Gospel narrative before it.
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In This Issue
May 10-23, 2013
- Illinois parish's ESL program welcomes all
- A different Mary assumes the stage
- A question few seem to consider when the US wages war afar
- [Print Edition Only] Special Section: Summer Listings
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