May 26-June 2, 2014

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Editorials

Current Comment

After years of strain, relations between Ireland and the Vatican are warming up.

Diversity and Education

Increasing economic and ethnic diversity without racial preferences will be difficult.

Articles

Taking Liberties
Ellen K. Boegel

Religious freedom, Obamacare and the rights of American business: Ellen K. Boegel's legal backgrounder on the Hobby Lobby case

The Living Word
We Praise You, O God!
Robert F. O’Connor

Roc O'Connor, S.J. on the use of Scripture in contemporary liturgical music

Jack, Bobby, Ted
John F. Baldovin

On Nov.

On Killing Soldiers
David Carroll Cochran

At age 16, Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, was drafted into Hitler’s military.

Of Other Things
The Home Team
Kerry Weber

You don’t have to love baseball to find beauty in the film ‘Field of Dreams.’

An Ecclesial Embrace
Thomas Stransky

The dates of Pope Francis’ upcoming trip to the Holy Land are no accident.

Books and Culture

Art
The Sacred Heart of Texas
Christopher T. Haley
In 1959, Pope John XXIII redesignated the Diocese of Galveston as the Diocese of Galveston-Houston, and
Books
The Mysteries of History
Thomas Murphy
Jeremy Treglown’s approach in 'Franco’s Crypt' is microscopic rather than macroscopic.
Books
A Brother Lost
Dennis M. Leder
Paula Huston’s 'A Land Without Sin' weaves together archeology, political revolution, the demise of the Mayan civilization.
Books
Seeing Nature’s Grandeur
Paul G. Crowley
David Pleins 'Evolving God' and Elizabeth Johnson, C.S.J.'s, 'Ask the Beast' take up the religious themes and sensibilities of Darwin's work.

Columns and Departments

The Word
United by the Spirit
John W. Martens
The Word
The Apprentice Builders
John W. Martens
Faith in Focus
Setting Out in Haste
Silas Henderson
The Visitation calls us to service.
Columns
Simply Loving
James Martin, SJ
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Luke Hansen, S.J.
Poem
Gaza Ghazal
Amit Majmudar
Letters
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