This poem is modeled on one from the Yuan Dynasty, 1279-1368, in The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry.
May 2009
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Letters
Amazing Grace Thanks to Frank Moan, S.J., for his reflections on prayer (“Finally, God’s Voice,” 2/9). It takes courage to punch through the veneers of doctrine and dogma and arrive at a place and time that is infused with God. Moan speaks to the sterility of words that can so easi
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In Israeli Jewish Schools, No Teaching About Christianity
Currently, if anything about Christianity is taught, it is about the Crusades and the Inquisition. There is no teaching of comparative religion.
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Invitation Stokes a National Controversy
Notre Dames invitation to President Obama is the latest in a series of controversies concerning the identity of Catholic colleges.
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Scholars: Promote Religious Freedom
There is this erroneous notion that its unconstitutional if we are talking to religious leaders around the world, said Thomas F. Farr.
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Richardson Honored in Rome
Archbishop Sheehan introduced the governor to Pope Benedict, saying, Holy Father, this is our governor and he just repealed the death penalty.
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Vatican Objects to Remarks on Israel
The Vatican called Irans president’s recent remarks about Israel at a U.N. conference on racism as extremist and unacceptable
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News Briefs
The Benedictine priest Stanley L. Jaki (left), a Hungarian-born author, physicist, philosopher and theologian, died on April 7 in Madrid.
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Try Three Hail Marys Rather than Ten
As we enter the month of May devotion to Mary and praying the rosary come to the fore Here is a variation that I nbsp find very helpful It originated with some variations with Cardinal Suenens of Belgium nbsp nbsp At bottom nbsp instead of nbsp one Our Father and then ten Hail Marys nbsp