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In All Things
James Martin, S.J.
If you enjoyed Matt Nannery s article on advice from the Trappists of Genesee Abbey on the recession you might like this lovely video celebrating their 50th year at the Abbey James Martin SJ
In All Things
James Martin, S.J.
nbsp From the Boston Globe nbsp The war of words between the Catholic bishop of Rhode Island and US Representative Patrick J Kennedy escalated yesterday when Bishop Thomas J Tobin criticized him for disclosing a confidential request the prelate made in 2007 to stop receiving Holy Communion be
In All Things
Michael Sean Winters
No one in America not even President Barack Obama is as compelling a figure in our nation rsquo s political life as Sarah Palin She twitters and they are talking about it on the news that night She shows up and the adoring crowds throng to see her The publishing industry is in free fall with
Books
Kelly Cherry
Stories from the Gulf Coast
Of Many Things
Peter Schineller
A Jesuit seeks to preserve a rare African language.
Columns
John F. Kavanaugh
Does Rush Limbaugh realize that the Christian tradition holds calumny to be a serious sin?
Matt Nannery
Looking at the recession through the eyes of Trappists
Poetry
Kathleen F. Pesta

In the dawn

Television
Regina Nigro

The miniseries “V” operates at cross purposes, drawing on a popular political trope while adopting an unnuanced, apolitical stance.

Signs Of the Times
Austen Ivereigh

The CDF is stressing that the Vatican overture was not an initiative of the Holy See but a response to requests from Anglicans who have broken with their church.

Signs Of the Times

An American deacon described at a press conference in London how he was suddenly cured from a severe spinal condition after praying to Cardinal John Henry Newman.

The Word
Barbara E. Reid
First Sunday of Advent (C), Nov. 29, 2009
Books
Daniel J. Harrington
Luke Timothy Johnson examines the lives of the early Christians.
Current Comment
The Editors
Election Day 2009; Fighting Infant Mortality: Term Limits in Latin America
Doris Gottemoeller
Four recommendations for the Vatican investigation of women religious
Letters
Hard to Imagine Thank you for printing the wonderful article “Our Brothers, the Jews,” by Dorothy Day (11/9). It is an illuminating time capsule of prior years. I cannot imagine the United States as it was described. It was warming to hear the words mystical body, words that are not
Signs Of the Times

“We are all aware of the special anxieties which surround our women religious these days," Cardinal Roger M. Mahony wrote.

Editorials
The Editors
If the U.S. is serious about confronting H1N1, then part of any comprehensive response must be to improve standards for worker sick leave.
George M. Anderson
Learning to forgive in the wake of the Rwandan genocide
Faith in Focus
Kyle T. Kramer
What nature teaches about boom and crash