SPIRITED THINKING SINCE 1888
July 07, 2016
Vatileaks: monsignor and PR expert found guilty of conspiring to leak documents
July 07, 2016
But Vatican judges acquitted an aide and said they did not have jurisdiction to try Italian journalists
There’s a good reason that annulments in India now have no legal force
July 07, 2016
India's Supreme Court has made technical bigamists of Catholics who have remarried after an annulment. But it has not acted unreasonably
Pope names Archbishop Cupich to Congregation for Bishops
July 07, 2016
Archbishop will have significant influence over future episcopal appointments in the United States
The lesson of Chilcot: we need just war theory more than ever
July 07, 2016
It is only thanks to just war theory that we can articulate why the invasion was immoral
What’s inside this week’s magazine?
July 07, 2016
Take a look inside this week's magazine
Word This Week
July 07, 2016
The Fifteenth Sunday of the Year: Deut 30:10-14 ; Col 1:15-20; Lk 10:25-37 (Year C)
When Japan’s Christians rose up against the state
July 07, 2016
Book review: Christ’s Samurai by Jonathan Clements
Miracles aren’t ‘making a comeback’ – they never went away
July 07, 2016
Millennials believe in miracles, no matter how hard society tries to explain them away
Showdown in the Philippines
July 07, 2016
Cardinal Tagle is a 'Catholic rock star'; President Duterte scorns the Pope and believes in an eye for an eye. Both are loved by the people — so who will prevail?
Brexit ‘won’t affect pilgrimages to Lourdes’
July 07, 2016
A pilgrimage director has dismissed claims that Lourdes pilgrims will suffer following Britain's withdrawal from the EU
The blessing of Benedict
July 07, 2016
Benedict XVI is still a presence in the life of the Church. This is extraordinary for so many reasons. Most Catholics assumed that he would be silent by now, either because he had retreated into Trappist silence or because, to employ a gentle euphemism, he was “no longer with us”. Instead, he is planning a
Comments of the Week
July 07, 2016
The need the welfare state can’t meet SIR – The question by Matthew Schmitz’s friend, Tom Holland – “What is the Church offering that can’t be done by the welfare state?” – is intriguing because it points to an unresolved paradox of history (Feature, July 1). That is to say that before the brutal dissolution
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