This Week

A Lasting Victory?

The passage by the House of a health care bill is both an achievement and a mere first step.

Of Many Things

Making the move from the Great Plains to the gritty urbanity of New York

Together in Prayer

Holding hands, not holding back

The World According to Berry

For Thomas Berry, water, rocks and trees are not ancillary to his thought, but constitutive.

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Signs of the Times

• Can Colombia's Displaced People Get on the U.N. Agenda?
• C.C.H.D. Says Grantees Follow Church Teaching
• Detained Migrants Deserve Spiritual Care

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Books & Culture

Animal Planet

In "Fantastic Mr. Fox" the characters live in a land with more pragmatism and depth than the quirky animation suggests.

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In These Pages

A Kiss is Never Just a Kiss

By Thomas J. Reese

The kiss of peace, which originated among the first Christians but eventually fell into disuse, was restored to the Roman missal in 1970.  full story

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