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Arts & Culture Books
Vincent T. O'KeefeMarch 28, 2005

Since the flurry of biographies of Pope John Paul II appeared in the 1990s an uneasy deathwatch has set in among Vaticanologists who have been predicting his imminent death since 1994 The 84-year-old pontiff has not only refused to follow their scenarios he has actually buried many of his

Arts & Culture Books
George M. AndersonMarch 28, 2005

This slender but powerful book describes how an upper-middle-class parish in Lima Peru was transformed in concert with the poor people in its midst largely through the efforts of its founding pastor The pastor who is also the author of Birth of a Church Joseph Nangle O F M recounts how this

Faith The Word
Dianne BergantMarch 28, 2005

We should not be too quick to criticize the early disciples for their initial lack of faith in the resurrection.

Editorials
The EditorsMarch 28, 2005

C. S. Lewis compared the risen life to the lightness of an early summer morning when we feel one with sunlight and the gentle air. Of such a morning he wrote in The Weight of Glory, We do not want merely to see beauty...we want to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into

News

New Lay Group Formed to Improve Church ManagementA group of U.S. Catholic bishops and lay church and business leaders announced on March 14 the formation of a group to be called the National Leadership Round-table on Church Management.Its goal is to help Catholic dioceses and parishes improve admini

John F. KavanaughMarch 28, 2005

In the fantasy novel That Hideous Strength, a young social scientist, hoping to break into the inner circle of the prestigious National Institute for Coordinated Experiments (acronym: NICE) discovers that the goal of the institute is to eliminate organic life. Filostrato, a physiologist who hates tr

Faith Vantage Point
Thomas M. KingMarch 28, 2005

Teilhard was striving for sanctity by working in science, and this effort would require a new understanding of what it means to be holy.