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In All Things
Our latest online Culture piece sees associate editor Kevin Clarke considering the implications terrible serious probable likely funny of Watson the IBM supercomputer trouncing two Jeopardy champions at their own game nbsp Whither nbsp the relationship between humans and computers nbs
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Fr Raymond Schroth points out in Why Johnny Can t Write some saddening observations about the lack of writing assignments in college classes particularly among education and business majors Today my very own education and psychology students will be reading here and I hope they click the link
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What matters more of course are the lives lost But it s always symbolic when an earthquake destroys -- or in this case half destroys -- a cathedral because there are few buildings more solid Reports suggest that the 150-year-old Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Christchurch has been sever
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Senator Scott Brown the rising-star Republican from Massachusetts is on a media blitz this week promoting his new book Against All Odds Reviews describe the book as a compelling account of Brown s escape from a troubled youth--moving 17 times in only 18 years with 7 marriages between his two pa
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For those following the conversations on this blog and elsewhere about the recent Lost conference at Fordham on twenty-somethings and the Catholic Church a new round of conversation is up at the Lost website Right here you can read some questions and comments posed by those who attended a
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Much has been written is being written and will continue to be written about celibacy in the priesthood and its effects Contrastingly very little is written about persons who for many reasons find themselves alone despite related efforts to connect intimately with others In the past several y
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Oh brother nbsp Hard not to bite your tongue when reading this nbsp Apparently Vatican II is important nbsp at the Vatican nbsp Traditionalist bishop cites lack of progress in talks with VaticanBy John Thavis Catholic News ServiceVATICAN CITY CNS -- The head of a group of traditionalist Cat
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The document issued today download here by the Irish bishops From Crisis to Hope Working to achieve the Common Good is a sharp passionate and mostly stylish summons to Ireland to make a fresh start in the midst of its current crisis Ireland must resist the temptation to press the reset b
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Irish Central reported today a dramatic scene in nbsp Dublin s St Mary s Pro-Cathedral nbsp part of the Vatican s visitation that is investigation by Cardinal Sean O Malley of Boston nbsp and Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York nbsp of the troubled church in Ireland H t Dotcommonweal and Whis
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I posted last week on the British government s announcement that it intends to allow the registration of same-sex civil partnerships on religious premises if these are happy to allow it Currently they can bless before or after the registration but the registration itself must not take place in a
Film
"Of Gods and Men' is a Passion play of a very modern sort.
Current Comment
Through Arab Eyes; Lower Rate, Fewer Loopholes; Health Care Myths Die Hard
Letters
A New Welcome Mat Paul Crowley’s “Tomorrow’s Theo-logians” (2/7) gives all Catholics hope. Though Father Crowley is a Jesuit teaching at a Jesuit institution, his message calls for a more effective Catholic education. As a child of the 1960s I am encouraged by the young, by r
Signs Of the Times
Christians and Muslims are involved together in the democracy and reform movements in the Middle East, said a leading Lebanese scholar.
New Media
A Jesuit priest reviews his favorite Catholic apps
Faith in Focus
The more Palestinians I met, the easier it became to dismiss caricatures of rock-hurling fanatics
Signs Of the Times
Who are they? Where did they go? Are they ever coming back? A look at twenty-somethings and the church