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The cloudy future of suburban Catholic schools

Over the years, my wife and I have developed an ear for war. After reporting from the Middle East for most of the last decade and covering the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for The Boston Globe, I have seen and heard too much of it from too close. During one of my postings as The Globe’s bure

Three former general assistants consider Father Arrupe's legacy.

Remembering Father Pedro Arrupe on the centennial of his birth.

Thomas the Apostle needs a publicist. Even though in Johns Gospel he gives voice to the most profound statement of faith in the New Testament, My Lord and my God, the first word that comes to mind for most of us on hearing his name is doubtingdoubting Thomas. We forget his courageous response when J

We thought we knew him, with that searching unsettling gaze of his, the man with a peasant face who became the master of light and shadow, saturated color and probing psychology. The guises in which he presented himself varied greatly: here as a soldier, there as a prince, now as a beggar or as a ki

Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta (Doubleday, $22.95) is a disturbing book, one that has become a lightning rod for commentators of every stripe, from believers to unbelievers. Can it also be read as a consoling book? I believe so, though the consolation is not “c