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Faith in Focus
Christmas Poems New Directions. 96p $11.95 A wonderful stocking stuffer, this collection of Christmas poems, carols and ballads (assembled by the publisher) draws from the literature of many places and times—spanning, in fact, almost 2,000 years. Its contents of 84 entries very tidily provide
The sun doesn’t shine much in the Bronx neighborhood where John Patrick Shanley’s powerful film, Doubt, is set. The atmosphere is gray and cold; its melancholy mood is disturbed only once in the film by a fierce wind storm that blows down many of the bare limbs of the convent trees. The winds of change are indeed blowing in the Catholic Church in 1964, and Sister Aloysius Beauvier, the principal of St. Nicholas parish school, seems determined to protect her domain from any corrupting influences that might be in the air.
Books
Michael O rsquo Neill McGrath O S F S had never heard of the Catholic nun and gospel singer Thea Bowman while she was alive but once he discovered her as we learn in this splendid short memoir she transformed his life ldquo I like to tell folks that I have a little black nun inside of me rd
Editorials
From 2008: can prolifers work with the Obama administration to reduce abortions?
A country rich in resources remains mired in poverty.
Letters
A Return to Collegiality Thank you for your strong endorsement of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (Current Comment, 12/8). It should be noted that in recent years the Vatican, operating on a narrower understanding of episcopal collegiality, has limited the authority of such conferences. At t
Columns
'The sad reality is that extremists on both sides are alienating citizens from one another.'
Faith in Focus
Third in a series for Advent and Christmas
News
Vatican Praises Galileo as a Man of Faith Sixteen years after Pope John Paul II said the Catholic Church erred when it condemned the 17th-century astronomer Galileo Galilei, the Vatican secretary of state said the astronomer was “a man of faith” who recognized God as creator of the cosmo
The Good Word
Purple was the color of the wealthy and of the highest nobility and royalty This purple garment put on Jesus together with the crown woven for the occasion from thorn branches witness to the fact that Rome has accepted kingship as the crime Jesus has made a crime worthy of death As one
The Good Word
Shout for joy Sing joyfully Be glad and exult with all your heart On that day it shall be said Fear not be not discouraged The Lord your God is in your midst A mighty savior He will sing joyfully because of you And renew you in His love
In All Things
In between all the sad news about the death of Cardinal Dulles you may have missed some wonderful news about one of his Jesuit brothers nbsp John nbsp Foley SJ the founder of the Cristo Rey network of schools providing education nbsp funded in part by nbsp work-study jobs for poor youths ac
The Good Word
Like a fire there appeared the prophet Elijah You Elijah it is written are destined in the time to come to put an end to wrath before the judgment day of the Lord to turn back the heart of each person to every other person Blessed is he who shall have seen you Elijah before he dies
In All Things
Avery Dulles Disciple of Jesus A version of this nbsp post nbsp will appear in the Jan 5 version of the magazine Cardinal Avery Dulles S J died December 12 2008 nbsp after a long illness A prolific author Cardinal Dulles rsquo s most influential work was perhaps Models of the Church 19
In All Things
Assisted suicide is back in the news in Britain because of two poignant stories with a lethal cocktail of accompanying dilemmas is it right to take your own life to end great suffering Should it be illegal for people to help you do so And is it right to show an assisted suicide on television Th
In All Things
Funeral Plans have been announced by the New York Province of the Society of Jesus for Avery Cardinal Dulles SJ who died this morning at the Jesuit infirmary at Fordham University There will be a Mass of the Holy Name of Jesus particularly for Jesuits in New York and religious and cl
In All Things
nbsp Cambridge MA My reflections last week made clear my hope that in this Advent season we can engage in interreligious intercultural learning by considering as an example the teaching on the birth of Lord Krishna in the world according to the Bhagavad Gita I continue now with verses I c