December 23-30, 2013

Vol. 209 No. 19Whole No. 5034 Download PDF

Editorials

Current Comment

A test for the U.S. in the troubled waters of the East China Sea.

A Home for Christmas

Those living on the street and in shelters share in the Holy Family’s experience of transience and insecurity. But how often are they welcomed with reverence and joy?

Articles

Lose Yourself
Ruth Burrows
Getting past ‘me’ to ‘thee’
Have Faith in Joy
James Martin, SJ
The ultimate response to the good news
Saving the Humanities
Raymond A. Schroth
The liberal arts under fire

Books and Culture

Art
Weaving the World
Leo J. O'Donovan
Well before globalization and technology unified the world, trade in textiles wove it both practically and sumptuously together.
Books
The Mystic of Milledgeville
Diane Scharper
Flannery O’Connor’s (1925–64) 'A Prayer Journal,' edited by W. A. Sessions
Books
For the Love of Neighbor
Kenneth R. Himes
For Caron E. Gentry, "the just war tradition, if it is to be useful in the new age, requires revision."
Books
Messiah Complex
Donald Senior
Reza Aslan’s study of the historical Jesus could easily be assigned to fiction.

Columns and Departments

The Word
Family in Flight
John W. Martens
The Word
Manifest Divinity
John W. Martens
Columns
Breaking the Glass Slipper
Kerry Weber
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Matt Malone, S.J.
Poem
From the Rough Ways
Sister Mary David
Letters
Reply All
Our readers
Washington Front
Capitol Exhortations
John Carr