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Letters

Too Right? The editorial “Obama’s Scandal” (10/22) begs for response. I am personally aware of the pressures on the editorial board—financial, civil and ecclesiastical—in this confounding election season. Nonetheless, why Guantánamo a week before the election? W

Editorials

Books

A Woman in Full

I came to Mary C Sullivan rsquo s biography of Catherine McAuley with several entrenched assumptions about the level of interest a 19th-century Irish founder of a women rsquo s religious order could possibly inspire These assumptions were handily challenged by the narrative sweep that Sullivan map

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Living the Kingdom

The church comes to the close of the liturgical year by celebrating the solemnity of Christ the King As Blessed John Paul II once reflected this solemnity is ldquo a synthesis of the entire salvific mystery rdquo The Scriptures we use are both triumphal and paradoxical In our first reading fr

Catholic Book Club

November Selection

Life will break your heart So will Jonathan Kozol rsquo s Fire in the Ashes It is full of life mdash messy disorganized broken and tragic and yes sometimes still full of joy and mercy and grace at unexpected moments This latest account of the lives of the other Americans who peopled K

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