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In All Things
Cambridge MA I recently came across a column in the On Faith section of the Washington Post by Loriliai Biernacki A friend of mine she is a professor of Indian religions at the University of Colorado Boulder and a specialist in the study of Hinduism Her piece is entitled ldquo A rich and st
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Before I leave for a retreat I thought I d post this video from the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management on the topic of joy during times of adversity nbsp The talk was nbsp at their annual meeting this June at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphi
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Living in Europe during my early twenties was a pivotal experience a life-changing period developmentally of setting out to see ldquo the world rdquo for myself It was also a time of self-testing The experience continues to shape my vacation travel in that I have long tried to save enough mo
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Many readers of America will have visited or at least heard about the Pantheon in Rome I knew little about it on my first visit there several years ago but was overtaken by it the moment it came into view from the street And once I stepped inside the rotunda and saw the Catholic altar amidst a
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This New York cover story is worth a read if you didn t catch it earlier this month Jennifer Senior sets out to explore the various reasons why in study after study young American parents have been shown to be unhappy with their lives As a new happy parent I was puzzled by this idea but I al
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If the above title sounds a little inside baseball to you a very very very brief nbsp explanation nbsp Alice von Hildebrand is a Catholic philosopher and theologian and also nbsp the widow of Dietrich nbsp von Hildebrand a prominent philosopher and moral theologian active in the anti-Nazi
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News from the Telegraph Maria Jepsen 65 came under fire for her handling of the case of a pastor accused of abusing young boys and girls in the 1970s and 1980s in her northern nbsp German nbsp diocese of Hamburg She reportedly knew for several years about the case but failed to act My credibili
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A nbsp portentous question no nbsp Well that did not dissuade the editors of Patheos an online religion website from posing the question to nbsp a variety nbsp of Catholics nbsp Patheos describes itself as follows Patheos com is the premier online destination to engage in the global dialog
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A small item from this month s Esquire magazine In a piece about a potential scandal on television s The Price is Right the author Chris Jones describes some of the show s changes He writes Even when Drew Carey replaced Bob Barker mdash the show s own version of Vatican II mdash he rocked
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While reading the New York Times this weekend I could not help but notice that at least five different articles dealt with creating a kind of cultural philosophical or religious permission-giving for taking time away from electronic connectivity in everyday life Is this a noteworthy constell
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In his article for our special issue on Religion and International Affairs Thomas F Farr argues that the United States must be more vigorous in its promotion of religious liberty abroad In the interest of continuing the conversation we asked Prof Farr to respond to a few questions sparked by th
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The Vatican and its defenders can argue that so closely associating women s ordination and sexual abuse does not make them the same But Catholics in secularizing countries many of whom understand that the form of the message is part of its content will be at liberty to be critical -- when they
In All Things
An interesting piece in the New York Times magazine about the US State Department s efforts to modernize diplomacy through the use of social networking From the article the State Department was still boxed into the world of communiqu eacute s diplomatic cables and slow government-to-government
Signs Of the Times
Fremont, Neb., is among the the municipalities that have voted to curtail the rights of undocumented immigrants.
Film
In 'Toy Story 3' the ostensibly inanimate objects are far more animated than most movie stars.
Signs Of the Times
The Diocese of Wilmington, Del., plans to appeal a federal bankruptcy judge’s ruling.
Signs Of the Times
Thousands of Anglicans are expected to move into the Catholic Church after a decision to ordain women as bishops.
Signs Of the Times
The norms will include abuse and the "attempted ordination of women" among the list of most serious crimes against church law.
Taking stock of the new evangelical internationalism