Women as deacons is not a concept for the future. Women as deacons is a concept for the present, for today. An interview with Phyllis Zagano.

It was Jesus -- and I almost missed him. By Alice Camille.

Some challenging questions about our understanding of Jesus' role as "the Christ". By Michael Morwood.

Reflections on his turning eighty. By Daniel O'Rourke.

God is bigger than our dogmas. By Hank Mattimore.

...about the Sheik and the Scotsman.

An overview of his life and work on the death of American playwirght Arthur Miller. By Leo J. Donovan.

Is the priesthood as we've known it obsolete?

Presidential address to the International Thomas Merton Society. By Donald Grayston.

2) Truth and A Call to Renewal. An NCR Editorial on the Legion of Christ.

2) The story of a priest whose doomed love affair led to suicide, as well as 3) The testimony of the woman with whom he had fallen in love.

2) The Resurrection of the Dead - Part 2. Christians come face to face with the meaning of these creedal words when a loved one dies. By Richard McBrien.

2) Twenty-First-Century Sin

...on enhancing Muslim-Christian understanding. By Jennifer Waterman.

To understand one, it helps to understand the other, says John F. Haught.

Transformed into beings of heat and light. By Tom Harpur. 

...may be disagreement with the magisterium of the Church, as theologian Gregory Baum says. By Ted Schmidt.