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Old die habits die hard, but when it comes to the newspaper industry, habits are dying fast and furious.
Signs Of the Times
The archdiocese has urged Catholics not to vote for political parties that promote liberalized abortion laws and same-sex marriage.
Signs Of the Times
A source from the Catholic Diocese of Banmaw claimed that the Burmese government “does nothing to help civilian refugees."
Signs Of the Times
Catholics leaders urge Congress and Obama to remember the poor and most vulnerable as crisis talks continue on debt ceiling and deficit reduction.
Signs Of the Times
The Indian bishops spoke a day after three bombs in Mumbai left at least 17 people dead and more than 140 injured.
I grew up in Nashville, Tenn., in an Irish-Catholic enclave, at a time when Catholics made up less than 1 percent of the population and the whole state was one diocese. I am the fourth generation of women in my family to go to the St. Cecilia Dominican Academy, started before the Civil War. I loved
In All Things
Cambridge MA It is mid-summer mdash exactly half way between the end of the spring semester and the start of the fall semester ndash and so a precious quiet time in academe The Center for the Study of World Religions occupies several of my hours each day but here too there is a summer lull
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Again nbsp That makes at least three masterpieces found in Jesuit residences including a Caravaggio in Ireland and a Tintoretto in Pennsylvania nbsp We really have to start paying more attention nbsp Here s the story from the BBC A lost painting by Renaissance artist Michelangelo has been
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Today brings the second installment 8th film of the seventh Harry Potter book Harry Potter and nbsp The Deathly Hallows to the big screen Millions of devoted Potter fans will line up for one last time mdash bringing their enthusiasm and garish costumes mdash as the epic film series comes to a c
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My first Corpus Christi procession nbsp Surprise I went to the 9 00 a m mass instead of the 12 00 and found out our parish was having a Corpus Christi procession through the town nbsp After fifty plus years as a Catholic convert this was a first for me although I have participated in the Pax
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Surprise I went to the 9 00 a m mass instead of the 12 00 and found out our parish was having a Corpus Christi procession through the town nbsp After fifty plus years as a Catholic convert this was a first for me although I have participated in the Pax Christi Good Friday stations of the cross
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As James Keane S J pointed out in a recent issue of our magazine this year marks the 100th anniversary of Maryknoll And given the order s long history of service to the church and to countries around the world it certainly has reason to celebrate Dozens of events have been planned and the la
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The state of California now has a law that requires social studies classes to cover the contribution of gay and lesbian citizens to the state s and nation s history California s governor Democrat Jerry Brown said that the law revises existing laws that prohibit discrimination in education and e
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I m rather in awe of this widget above from my publisher which announces the availability of the audiobook version of The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything read by me over a space of four long 9 to 5 days at a studio in Carnegie Hall nbsp Check out the widget--which inclu
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Cardinal Joseph Zen of Hong Kong interrupted his tour of North American Chinese communities long enough to speak this morning in New York about renewed tensions between Beijing and the Vatican This morning in Shantou city in southern Guangdong province China s state-sanctioned Catholic church ordai
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I was wondering how long it would take this shoe to drop With all those Aussie editors scattered to the far corners of the Murdoch empire did anyone really think questionable practices to put it most kindly would be limited to the U K and a couple of royalty-mad tabloids CNN is reporting that t
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Joshua Green of The Atlantic Monthly quotes the omnipresent Bill Donohue in his piece regarding Michele Bachmann s church affiliation Obama had to answer for Wright McCain had to answer for Rev John Hagee and this is something that Bachmann has to answer for nbsp Indeed Ms Bachmann is ob
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The recent legislative endorsement of same-sex marriage here in New York and the tension between the official Catholic opposition to it and what appears to be fairly strong support for it by lay Catholics has me thinking about what it takes to do theology from non-normative if you will perspecti