Now that school is out, it’s fair to ask: “What’s in?” That’s a question parents should be considering. They have to be concerned with how their youngsters are occupying themselves during the summer vacation.
Guest Columnists
Charity: Our Christian Calling
A friend of mine is a church secretary. Her duties include greeting those who come to the parish seeking financial assistance. The poor rightly think of a church as a place to find help, and her parish has seen its share of supplicants.
A Sense of Mission
If we really believed that the most important part of our being is united to Christ and thus incorporated into the life of the Holy Trinity – how would we comport ourselves here on earth? George Weigel says we’d be on fire with a sense of mission.
An Open Letter to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
Your Holiness:
Grace and peace in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Finding Common Ground in A World of Differences
by Karen Osborne Things would have been really different if I had been born in 1880, not 1980. In the grand scheme of history, 100 years isn’t even close to being a drop in the bucket. When you’re talking about a human life, however, 100 years is a long time. If I had been born […]
John Paul and Francis At Yad Vashem
As that familiar parody of bad fiction has it, “it was a dark and stormy night” – March 21, 2000 to be precise – when I made my way from the Jerusalem Hilton to the Notre Dame Center to meet a senior Vatican official who had promised me a diskette with the addresses John Paul II would deliver during his epic visit to the Holy Land.
Foreign-Policy-by-Hashtag: #BeatAdolf?
The first 15 minutes of “Saving Private Ryan” and the jump sequence in the second episode of “Band of Brothers” are vivid reminders of the extraordinary courage displayed on D-Day, 70 years ago.
The Permanent Diaconate: A Call to Service
The renewal of the permanent diaconate is one of the greatest legacies of the Second Vatican Council.
Should CCHD Be Used for Schools?
It’s commencement season, and tens of thousands of students are graduating from inner-city Catholic elementary schools. As decades of empirical research have shown, these kids have a better chance of successfully completing high school and college.
Editing Our Own Genes?
A number of serious diseases are known to occur because of defects or mutations in our DNA. Curing such diseases could in principle be carried out by rewriting the DNA to fix the mutated base pairs. Yet until recently, scientists have remained largely stymied in their attempts to directly modify genes in a living animal. Findings described in the March 30, 2014 issue of Nature Biotechnology, however, reveal that a novel gene-editing technique, known as CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats), can be used successfully in mice to reverse disease symptoms for a liver defect known as type I tyrosinemia.