Sightings Articles
The Churches Warm Up to Climate Change -- Cory Labrecque
When climate change protesters marched on Wall Street last September, their charge was to bring attention to a global urgency that requires a deep and abiding transformation of the way we think about, invest in, and relate to the environment. Layi...
February 5, 2015
Malaise in Europe -- Martin E. Marty
Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, some Americans remembered the religious and not-wholly-commercial base of this national holiday. The religious element bade citizens to look backward with thanks and forward with a spirit of newness and resolve. Yesterday,...
December 1, 2014
South Korea's Catholic Church: Poster Child for a Fresh Pontificate — Timothy S. Lee
When Pope Francis visited South Korea in mid-August, he participated in the Sixth Asian Youth Day, consoled parents of teenagers who had perished in a capsized ferry, expressed solidarity with women who had been forced into sexual bondage by the Japa...
September 4, 2014
American Women Religious: Sisters of the World and Nuns Dedicated to Prayer
In a March, 2014, Sightings, author Monica Mercado cautioned that “to celebrate Catholic sisters, we might resolve to tell many stories, not just one.” ...