U.S. Catholic magazine: April 2008 - National Shrine of St. Jude

A special issue on the environment for April:

41 bright ideas for going green
Green isn't just for Ordinary Time
The Bible tells me so
Change the climate in Washington
Does the Earth have a prayer?
Waste not, want not
Political environment heating up
All creatures great and small
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Breaking news:

April 22:
Scholar, pastor, enigma: German pope defies easy caricature
Former bishop wins presidential election in Paraguay

April 18:
Four key phrases help unlock meaning of pope's speech at U.N.
Pope, at U.N., says no government or religion can limit human rights
Bush summit seeks help for inner-city Catholic schools

April 17:
Pope meets privately with victims of priestly sexual abuse
Bishops feel hopeful, optimistic after meeting with pope

April 16:
Pope, Bush discuss fighting terrorism while respecting human rights
Pope calls sex abuse scandal 'countersign' to Gospel of life
SNAP says pope's remarks on sex abuse scandal not enough

April 15:
Pope Benedict greeted by Bush as he begins first U.S. visit
USCCB streams papal visit live on the web
Pope hopes to help heal wounds of priestly sex abuse during U.S. trip
In-flight amenities: Journalists well-treated on papal plane

April 10:
At ground zero, pope will pray for victims and families, world peace
Here comes the Pope! Popemobile routes previewed
Priest murdered in Iraq

Blogs:

Catholic Tastes: Have trailer, will pilgrim

Margin Notes: Slow torch to China

The Examined Life: Is shame enough

Signs of the Times: Pope Benedict confronts sexual abuse crisis

Reviews:

Books
Before Dallas
Anyone who has been confounded by the church’s mishandling of the child sex abuse crisis will benefit from Nicholas Cafardi’s detailed account of the church’s response prior to the 2002 approval in Dallas of the U.S. bishops’ Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.

As Cafardi, both a civil and canon lawyer, points out, concern about sexual abuse was not born of the 20th century. Collections of canon law have long had provisions on how to handle such offenses by clerics. Why these were not followed, and why other roads were taken instead, serve as the core of the book.

Movies
There Will Be Blood
Paul Anderson’s adaptation of Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel Oil! joins an impressive list of Hollywood classics lancing the boil of ambition and greed in the underbelly of the American dream. Like Citizen Kane, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Godfather, Chinatown, and Wall Street, Anderson’s brooding and violent epic takes aim at a ruthless and savage winner-take-all ethic buried deep in the American psyche.

Atonement
Older Catholics may recall a story about the standard penance for gossip. “On a blustery day shake out the contents of a feather pillow from a high window. The next day collect every feather scattered across the landscape.”

More selections from the April issue of U.S. Catholic

good news The Examined Life
Lab partners
Instead of shooting rhetorical spitballs in the other's general direction,
boosters of both science and religion should start sharing a desk.

Margin Notes
I think I can, I think I can
A 19th-century mode of transport may be the answer to our current environmental woes.

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Selections from the March issue of U.S. Catholic
Margin Notes Womb for rent Have infertile couples taken a maternity leave of their senses?	The Examined Life Start spreading the Good News The first (and most ignored) rule of preaching the gospel: “Know your audience.”

Selections from the February issue of U.S. Catholic
Margin Notes Hot enough for you? The world's poor face an even bleaker future than polar bears, thanks to global warming.	The Examined Life Here comes everybody else Our color in the Crayola box of “flesh tones” shouldn’t determine our place in the church.

Selections from the January issue of U.S. Catholic
Margin Notes Death takes a holiday But the question is whether executions will take a permanent vacation in the United States.	The Examined Life His-steria Despite terror that women are staging a coup de church, the numbers just don't add up.

Selections from the December issue of U.S. Catholic
Margin Notes Bank robbery Forgive us our bad debts—many of which were made fraudulently to developing countries.	The Examined Life Not all roads lead to Rome The diverse challenges of a struggling world need local solutions from a flexible church.

Selections from the November issue of U.S. Catholic
Margin Notes No more CARE packages Instead of dumping grain in poverty-stricken regions, we should be investing cash.	The Examined Life More than words Rather than threaten our Christian faith, exploring the language and spiritual practices of other religious traditions may instead make us better Catholics.

Selections from the October issue of U.S. Catholic
Margin Notes—Kevin Clarke Cracks in the system Deferring infrastructure maintenance for war spending builds a bridge to nowhere.	The Examined Life—Bryan Cones How green is your faith? We should honor God the Father by caring for our Mother Earth.

Promise of the Promised Land:
Archbishop Elias Chacour of Galilee is working to create his own biblical vision of the Holy Land, in which people of all faiths live together in peace.

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