Editorials
The Orient From on High
In the Liturgy of the Hours, the church salutes the expected Messiah as the Orient from on high (Lk 1:78).
Articles
Christmas Conscience
On the weekend before Advent’s onset, CNN ran a special called The Fight Over Faith.
A Eucharistic Church
Karol Wojtyla has always had a deep eucharistic piety. In 2003 he released his most recent encyclical, Ecclesia de Eucharistia, emphasizing the bonds between the Eucharist and the church.
The G-Men and Me
The image of the Christ Child wrapped in swaddling clothes in the straw-filled manger surrounded by nodding donkeys and loving, weary parents is so familiar to us, it is as though we were eyewitnesses
Books and Culture
Books
There’s a well-worn Yiddish story about a yeshiva bokher (seminarian) who defiantly informs his old rabbi that he has become an ap
Books
This illuminating and engaging book examines similarities and differences in the techniques employed to interpret the Christian Bible and
Books
In Wonderful and Dark Is This Road, Emilie Griffin, the respected author or co-editor of 14 books (including Turning: Reflections
Film
Had I been writing this column 80 years ago, I would probably have lined up with those critics vigorously opposed to the talkies.
Columns and Departments
The Word
The Word
The Word
Poem
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