Focus

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  A sacrament of lessons about life

  Oct 30, 2014

  The Catholic Church is a sacramental church. While rooted firmly on the bedrock of Sacred Scripture, the Church’s life is given meaning through the sacraments.

  
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  The Goddess of chastity

  Oct 30, 2014

  Ancient Greece expressed much of its psychological and spiritual wisdom inside their myths.

  
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  Ebola survivor Nina Pham: I believe in the power of prayer

  Oct 30, 2014

  Nina Pham, a Dallas nurse who has been battling Ebola after treating a patient in Texas, has now been declared free of the disease, and gave thanks to God and all those who have prayed for her in recent weeks.

  
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  The Real Story about Ebola

  Oct 30, 2014

  A disease outbreak is a story we can really get into. The invisible microorganism lodges itself inside a human host and travels undetected among the teeming masses.

  
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  On the Synod...Cardinal Nichols’s view

  Oct 30, 2014

  Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster and President of the Bishops’ Conference, held a press conference at the Bishops’ Conference office in London on Oct 21, to offer his reflections on the Extraordinary Synod on the Family that took place in Rome Oct 5-19.

  
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  On the Synod...A woman’s view

  Oct 30, 2014

  Eberl, one of the few women personally invited by the Pope to take part in the Synod, was responsible for collecting the replies to the Vatican questionnaire in the Berlin archdiocese.

  
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  Ebola and the failure of the market

  Oct 24, 2014

  When Thomas Duncan first showed up at a Texas hospital complaining of a fever and stomach pains after a visit to his native Liberia, he was prescribed antibiotics and sent home.

  

• Food for Thought

  Oct 24, 2014

  A big theme in the papacy of Pope Francis is immigration.

  

• Family in a time of war

  Oct 24, 2014

  One of the issues the church is examining as it gets ready this year and next to deal with challenges to the family is the impact of migration and war.

  

• The church, migration and the effects on the family

  Oct 24, 2014

  A Chaldean Catholic couple and their children recently spent nights over the course of two months sleeping on their home’s roof in an Iraqi village.