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Television
While much of importance is included in PBS' 'God in America,' much is left out.
Signs Of the Times
Chiara Badano, a young member of the Focolare movement who died of bone cancer in 1990, was beatified on Sept. 25 in Rome.
Books
John S Dunne invites readers to take part in the great circle of Gods love.
Of Many Things
The beatification of John Henry Newman brought particular consolation to Catholics in the English-speaking world.
Signs Of the Times
The Haitian hierarchy will receive substantial support from partners in North America and Europe.
Signs Of the Times
The governor-elect has promised to improve governance in one of Mexico’s most impoverished states.
The Word
Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time (C), Oct. 17, 2010
Interreligious relations and the Synod of the Middle East
Letters
The Model Gentleman “Conspiracy of Bishops and Faithful,” by Drew Christiansen, S.J. (9/27), reminds me that the 19th-century prose and even the poetry of John Henry Newman may be a little hard for today’s readers to digest. But to read him, even to meditate on his seamless logic,
Signs Of the Times
If there are “large forces are at work against the poor,” so, too, there are good forces working for them.
Ideas
St. Francis and the Judaic roots of the blessing of animals
In All Things
Last night I finally saw David Fincher s highly touted new film The Social Network and nbsp it s extraordinary nbsp I ve always been a fan of Fincher director of Fight Club The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and one of the great overlooked movies of the last ten years Zodiac nbsp nb
In All Things
Today October 9 for the first time nbsp nbsp we can celebrate the optional feast of nbsp BLESSED nbsp John Henry Cardinal Newman 21 February 1801 nbsp ndash 11 August 1890 nbsp nbsp He converted to Catholicisim on this day in 1845 nbsp Prolific writer and possibly future Doctor of the
The Good Word
ldquo Go show yourselves to the priests rdquo is a request that the healed lepers go to the ones who in Jewish society authenticate cures from leprosy nbsp The priest at the Jerusalem Temple does not cure he declares for the knowledge of all citizens that a person is cured of leprosy nbsp
In All Things
The night train glided over the Mississippi River from Wisconsin into Minnesota and as usual it was running late I hoped a cab was waiting for me for the final 40 miles of the journey but when I had made my reservation the clerk told me the cab would not wait if the train was more than a little
In All Things
You will recall that presidential candidate Barack Obama once in famously said ldquo Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not rdquo The response was predictable liberals were furious conservatives were nauseous a
In All Things
A great video from the Jesuits Chicago Province on the Jesuit vocation and ordination to the priesthood nbsp Go Forth and Set the World on Fire from Chicago and Detroit Jesuits on Vimeo