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Columns
Margaret Silf
Can the flames of the church's purgatory become a new Pentecost?
Faith in Focus
Matthew P. Moll
A look at Catholic dating online
Signs Of the Times
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The investors have introduced shareholder resolutions that call upon the banks to act more openly in the trading of financial products known as derivatives.

Signs Of the Times
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The church’s unwillingness to begin “a painful process of renewal” in the wake of the abuse scandal has left Diarmuid Martin “disheartened and discouraged.”

The Word
Barbara E. Reid
Trinity Sunday (C), May 30, 2010
Television
Carolyn Martin Buscarino

In 'Justified' Timothy Olyphant conveys the smoldering rage of an honest man trying to make the world a more honest place.

Current Comment
The Editors
Experiment in Kinship; Dawn of the Superweed; A (Craigs)List Too Far
Faith
Peter J. Smith
How parishes can welcome children with disabilities
Culture
James Martin, S.J.Patricia A. Kossmann
The Lives of Jack LondonJames L. HaleyBasic Books. $29.95For those who know Jack London only from their high school days, that is, as a writer of supposedly “young-adult” tales like the novel The Call of the Wild or the supreme short story “To Build a Fire,” this riveting bio
Signs Of the Times
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The pope made his strongest remarks to date on sexual abuse cases at a press conference on May 11 during his flight to Portugal.

Signs Of the Times
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A new poll shows that U.S. Catholics’ approval of Pope Benedict XVI’s job performance dropped a “dramatic” 15 points over the past two years.

Art
Terrance Klein

Though often spurned by critics, Norman Rockwell has always been popular.

Books
Thomas J. Massaro
An exploration of the meaning of conscience and how it relates to law and government.
Editorials
The Editors
Arizona has launched the discussion on immigration reform. Now Congress must act.
Politics & Society
Joseph A. Califano Jr.
Why America's prison policy needs repair.
Letters
Loving Fidelity I have long insisted that authentic reform in the church must proceed through passionate love for the church: Ecclesia semper amanda et reformanda. Your recent editorials “Pilgrim People” (5/10 and 5/17) are bracing and compelling because they join, in a distinctive way,
Signs Of the Times
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If even moderate effects from climate change occur as predicted, millions of people will be uprooted in the near future.

Signs Of the Times
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The outgoing superintendent in the archdiocese of Washington said vigorous support for Catholic education is lacking from both parents and pastors.

In All Things
Tom Beaudoin
At Fordham University on Saturday our venerable commencement speaker and a recipient of an honorary doctorate was the Irish president Mary McAleese I was a faculty marshal carrying the mace for the Graduate School of Religion which meant among other things that I got to sit up on the s
In All Things
Austen Ivereigh
You may not have heard of the Cathedral of Frombork on Poland s Baltic coast But the remains that were re-buried there yesterday after a ceremony led by Poland s leading churchmen were of one of the best-known scientists in history long associated with one of the most significant shifts in the way