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In All Things
Jake Martin SJ a Jesuit scholastic and frequent contributor to our pages and our webpages had a horror of what the French call les nbsp cin eacute astes nbsp those nbsp tr egrave s serieux scholars of film who wax poetic about Godard Rohmer Resnais Truffaut et al nbsp But the recently rem
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The new issue of Vanity Fair includes a brief and eloquent piece by the inimitable Christopher Hitchens on his cancer diagnosis and treatment it is a must-read for anyone who loves or hates Hitchens musings on any number of subjects nbsp The prognosis sounds grim and Hitchens does not flinch
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There s been some debate in the U K over who should pay for the upcoming papal visit According to the BBC nbsp The total bill for the invited visit mdash without the cost of police and security mdash is estimated by the Foreign Office to be about pound 15m Of this pound 7m will come from t
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Looking for some good solid basic inviting user-friendly books on the faith nbsp My friend Msgr Peter Vaghi a nbsp fine writer indefatigable priest and pastor of Little Flower Church in Bethesda Md is hard at work on a fine new series of books on our faith that would prove inordinately u
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America is pleased to announce our formal partnership with Mirada Global a multilingual Web site that brings together articles from Jesuit publications in North and South America Like America Mirada Global is for the general reader not academics and covers a variety of subjects from religion a
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ldquo Ever since childhood when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it rdquo Paul Theroux and I share this memory only I lived near the tracks of the Chicago and North Western ldquo Those whistles sing bewitchment railways
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During my travels to New Orleans this past June I saw first-hand the good work that Catholic Charities of New Orleans is doing to help those affected by the oil spill in the Gulf including Chris Nelhig the fisherman pictured at right Catholic Charities has provided food rent assistance and cou
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This month on newsstands and in bookstores you ll find a terrific new book which I highly recommend To coincide with the centennial of the birth of Mother Teresa Time has published nbsp Mother Teresa at 100 The Life and Works of a Modern Saint It s a fantastic introduction to her life writte
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Some interesting news from my alma mater Yale Divinity School From the press release A scholarship in honor of the late Henri Nouwen who taught at Yale Divinity School for a decade beginning in 1971 has been established through a gift of 300 000 from a University benefactor who wishes to remai
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In loving memory of the feast of St Ignatius on July 31 may I suggest a visit to the good Jesuits buried at the former St Andrew s Seminary now the Culinary Institute of America The institute is on Route 9 in Hyde Park New York Among those buried there is the paleontologist Teilhard de Chardi
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A fine new movie Lebanon the winner of the 2009 Venice Film Festival has just been released in the States nbsp John McCarthy in a review on our online Culture section calls it bracing operatic and vivid nbsp His review begins Wolfgang Petersen rsquo s 1981 submarine thriller Das
Signs Of the Times
“All of the musical settings need to be rewritten,” said Annette Wright, a director of music from Ray Township, Mich.
Signs Of the Times
The campaign to prevent the construction of a Muslim community center near the site of the World Trade Center attacks is emblematic of an “Islamophobia," John L. Esposito said.
Signs Of the Times
New laws may help keep Wall Street in line, but what's next?
Television
NBC’s “Community” is one example of the complicated situation that is situation comedy.
Signs Of the Times
Catholic activists in India push back against land-use conversions from food to bio-fuels.
FaithThe Word
Freeing the heart from attachment to anything but God’s love and God’s realm is the next step in obedience.
A Catholic hospital, a pregnant mother and a questionable excommunication
