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Editorials
A report on Israeli conduct in Gaza offers a depressing collection of cautionary tales.
A meditation on birth and the spiritual life
Arts & CultureBooks
With Alice McDermott, a new and different kind of Catholic novel has appeared.
Signs Of the Times
A groundbreaking survey of “religious activists” has found that activists on both ends of the political spectrum are deeply religious.
Signs Of the Times
Bishop Luis Santos Villeda said that dialogue is important to avoid the possibility of civil war.
Books
We often use the word wise to mean ldquo insightful rdquo or ldquo graceful rdquo or ldquo shrewd rdquo or even ldquo humble rdquo Philip Levine rsquo s newest just-published poetry collection his 20th not even counting chapbooks is wise in a more fundamental truer way it is knowing
Books
Genocide has claimed hundreds of thousands of African lives in recent decades In his ambitious new book Tracy Kidder the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer takes readers into the heart of that awful chapter in human history through the eyes of a Burundian medical student named Deogratias mdash known
Letters
Exercise and Spirituality I much appreciated Maurice Timothy Reidy’s latest Of Many Things column (9/14). I developed the cycling addiction this past summer. A doctor I heard speak recently described exercise, including cycling, as “meditation in action.” Cycling is an enjoyable wa
Signs Of the Times
Pope Benedict XVI said that he was deeply saddened to hear of the roadside bombing that killed 10 Afghan civilians and six Italian soldiers.
Signs Of the Times
The Vatican has approved a small change in the U.S. Catholic Catechism for Adults clarifying teaching about God’s covenant with the Jewish people.
Books
Somehow it seems fitting that Karen Armstrong should make the case for God Her earlier works establish her gift for displaying the vast historical range of a topic with little distortion Here she pursues the human quest for God from the evidence of the cave painters of 30 000 B C E to the musings
John Micklethwait on the persistence of belief in a secular age
Television
Like Flannery O'Connor, “Mad Men” radically resets a situation so that viewers see themselves from a previously unknown vantage point.