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Reflections by priests on the origins and meanings of their vocations
Signs Of the Times
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The scorched head of Mary is all that remains of the Nagasaki cathedral destroyed by the atomic bomb.

Columns
Thomas J. Massaro
We have weathered more intense episodes with our unity intact.
Signs Of the Times
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“You also can’t underestimate the value of pastoral presence,” said Gordon Wage of Catholic Charities.

Faith in Focus
Alice Kearney Alwin
Reflections of a laboring mother
Ideas
Jack McLain
Zombies are all the rage. Why, exactly? An essay by Jack McLain, S.J.
Of Many Things
Maurice Timothy Reidy
Some have reacted to the crisis with anger, others by leaping to the churchs defense. I change the channel.
Books
Cecilio Morales
To see what a society molded by Catholic social teaching might look like, consider Western Europe.
Signs Of the Times
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At least four people died when buses carrying Christian university students was bombed near the Iraqi city of Mosul.

Gerard F. Powers
Finding our way on the road to disarmament
The Word
Barbara E. Reid
Pentecost Sunday (C), May 23, 2010
Current Comment
The Editors
Latinos, Unite! Damos de Blanco; Alternative Energy Horizons
Music
Thomas G. Casey
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Poetry
Leonard J. Cirino

The tenderness of snow flaming

In All Things
James Martin, S.J.
The fourth in a series on Huffington Post Atheists and non-believers probably won t believe this or me but I believe our desire for God comes from God and is one key way that God calls to us Even if you say that these desires are merely biological or psychological phenomena I would say that G
In All Things
Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
Cambridge MA It is an understatement to notice that we rsquo ve been going through some hard times in the Church and the crises are well documented in In All Things We must all be hoping and praying that the Church ourselves included undergo some renewal and fresh gust of Spirit at Pentecost
The Good Word
Tim Reidy
We are happy to feature this guest blog post from Francis A Quinn the archbishop emeritus of Sacramento Calif One of the most memorable moments of my life was when I conferred the Sacrament of Confirmation on 20 youths in San Francisco s Children s Hospital The children were from 4 to 16 years
In All Things
Michael Sean Winters
I listened to some of the congressional testimony by Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday I had to switch the radio because of the badgering idiocy of some of the questioning One Republican congressman kept trying to get Holder to blame radical Islam for terrorism which Holder understandably
In All Things
Austen Ivereigh
The redoubtable Fr Joseph Fessio SJ editor of the Ignatius Press laid into The Tablet recently for its reporting of the Archbishop of Vienna s criticism of the dean of the College of Cardinals Angelo Sodano over his Easter remarks about media reporting of nbsp clerical sex abuse as gossip S