Editorials
Numbers Count
In the contest for the dullest book published by the federal government, the annual budget would appear in almost everyone’s top 10 list.
Articles
The Bush Doctrine: A Catholic Critique
The United States today is indisputably the most powerful nation in the world militarily, economically and culturally. Since the terrorist attacks of Sept.
United in Happiness
It always disappoints me a bit when the celebrant at Mass chooses Eucharistic Prayer 1 (the Roman Canon) and skips the invocation of the saints, that resonant list of early martyrs recited before and
The Real Agenda
St. John Chrysostom once warned: Whoever is not angry when there is cause for anger sins. The 25 Catholics who gathered in the basement of St.
Palestinian Braveheart
When Mel Gibson’s film “The Passion of the Christ” is released on Ash Wednesday, it will bring the 106-year tradition of the Jesus-film full circle.
Books and Culture
Books
If war is hell, a literary corollary might be that every society touched by warfare needs its own version of Virgil or Dante to journey t
Books
George Santayana should have warned us: those who can remember the past, but do so obsessively, are just as condemned to repeat it as tho
Books
Randy Newman has a tune called God’s Song (That’s Why I Love Mankind) that can send a shiver down the spine of all believers, even those who
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