Sightings Articles
The Necessity of Bridge-Building
David Levithan, author of Boy Meets Boy (2003) and Two Boys Kissing (2013), will be awarded with the 2017 Chicago Tribune Young Adult Literary Prize at next weekend’s Printer’s Row Lit Fest in Chicago. Many of the bestselling author’s books feature g...
June 5, 2017
Infallibility and Heresy
Not since certain American Protestants were publicly anti-Catholic, as older readers may remember them having been, have we read as many headlines with words like “infallibility,” “heresy,” papal “plots,” “schism,” etc., as we do these days. My late ...
December 5, 2016
Saint Lonelyhearts
On September 4th the world witnessed a Holy Mass said by Pope Francis as Mother Teresa was elevated to sainthood. She is now known to the faithful as St. Teresa of Calcutta. While Mother Teresa was rightly celebrated for her care of the poor in the b...
October 20, 2016
Infallibility: Time To Find Another Term for This Doctrine?
This is not the first time that Küng has sought to encourage open and frank discussion of the doctrine of papal infallibility....
June 2, 2016
Confession Today
A mission of Sightings and the special mission assigned me here is to relate faith and faiths, as mediated by media, to public life. ...
October 12, 2015
Water: Economic Commodity or Human Right? -- Christiana Z. Peppard
Water is essential to biotic existence, and it is not a value-free substance, even as the availability of fresh, clean water is often taken for granted in the United States. In other parts of the world, billions of people lack potable water; their li...