Campaign financing and the race for president
2008
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‘An Ordinary Mystic’: The faith and art of Alfonse Borysewicz
The relationship between the art world and the Catholic Church in recent years has been, to say the least, strained. To pick two prominent examples, Andres Serrano’s photograph “Piss Christ” was condemned by Catholic leaders when it was first shown in 1989, as was Chris Ofili’
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Pilgrimages for Peace: Bob Mann on postwar Cambodia
How did you happen to go to Cambodia? I left the United States in 1979 to work as a physician’s assistant with Jesuit Refugee Services in camps on the Thailand-Cambodia border; it was the time of the Khmer Rouge slaughter of Cambodians, the so-called killing fields. Initially I was to stay onl
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The Witness of Courage and Forgiveness
Preparations for the 10th Annual Service for Families and Friends of Murder Victims last October turned out to be both fatiguing and exhilarating. Members of the Cherish Life Circle, which sponsored the service, know what it is like for mourners to come, some year after year and others for the first
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Our Broken Parish: When respect for the laity is lost
Do not fret because of the wicked; do not be envious of wrongdoers…. Trust in the Lord, and do good. —Psalm 37:1, 3 While we Catholics profess universality, the fact is that Catholic parishes can differ radically. I do not just mean culturally, in the way that a parish on the island of G
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What Might Have Been: A flawed adaptation of Ian McEwan’s ‘Atonement’
Novelists are liars. So are filmmakers. In their search for the truth artists find mundane reality quite unsuited to their purposes. The only solution lies in creating an alternative universe, where events and personalities lead to desired conclusions. In “Burnt Norton” T. S. Eliot observed, “
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Letters
War Profits I have read numerous articles in America on the war in Iraq. These articles have been well written and based on fact and Catholic teachings. None supported the war. In the Dec. 24 issue, an article by John F. Kavanaugh, S.J., continued the fine journalistic tradition of the magazine. Thr
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The Art of Alfonse Borysewicz
America is pleased to introduce its first audio slide show. Catholic artist Alfonse Borysewicz, profiled in the February 11 issue, narrates a tour of his work. Watch the slide show.
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Bob Dylan Is Not Dead: Todd Haynes chases an elusive legend in ‘I’m Not There’
‘I’m Not There,’ reviewed