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The Word
Barbara E. Reid
The Solemnity of Christ the King (B) Nov. 22, 2009
Books
David Garrison
Here is a small book of images artfully constructed and melancholy with only one story to tell but a story with two parts the end is coming life goes on As the title indicates each poem in this the 19th volume from Charles Wright contains six lines but six lines visually attenuated always
Of Many Things
Drew Christiansen
Stories of the pains inflicted by the absence of an Israeli-Palestinian peace
Signs Of the Times

Life issues from the test tube to the deathbed are on the agenda for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ fall general assembly.

Faith
William Reiser
Twenty Years Later: Remembering the Martyrs of El Salvador
Theater
Rob Weinert-Kendt

'Hamlet' doesn’t just epitomize the privileging of talk over action; this is, in fact, the play’s anguished subject.

Signs Of the Times

The Diocese of Bridgeport said it was disappointed that the court declined to hear its final petition regarding the ordered release of documents from sex abuse cases.

Faith in Focus
John J. Hardt
Chronicle of a brief life foretold
Books
Peter Heinegg
Two years of love and danger in Tehran
Current Comment
The Editors
Artful Tax Dodgers; Resigned in Afghanistan
Signs Of the Times

A Vatican official argues that since globalization has an impact on the movement of people, it must be the focus of Christian attention.

Austen Ivereigh
What will come of the Vatican's invitation to Anglicans?
Art
Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.

John LaFarge anticipated the art of the Impressionists in his simplified landscapes and exquisitely painted flower studies.

Signs Of the Times

Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of Detroitdescended 1,200 feet into the salt of the earth to bless a newly made statue and shrine to St. Barbara, the patroness of miners.

Poetry
Kathy Coffey

The birds of the hands:

In All Things
Austen Ivereigh
As a fan of the writer Karen Armstrong -- a former nun who has become one of the leading authorities on religion and its deformation in the modern world -- I was intrigued to learn of an initiative she has just launched no less than a global charter calling for the restoration of the principle of c
The Good Word
John W. Martens
I have a feeling that this week rsquo s readings were not geared to the Hollywood release date of 2012 but it works out well for those with apocalypse on the mind The first reading from Daniel 12 1-3 and the second reading from Mark 13 24-32 a chapter known to scholars as the little apocalyps
In All Things
James Martin, S.J.
Edward Beck a Passionist priest nbsp and author of several books on spirituality including his compelling memoir God Underneath is a talented writer and explicator of the faith who regularly appears on ABC Now nbsp and Good Morning America nbsp He is intelligent moderate and helpful on t
In All Things
James Martin, S.J.
Today is the anniversary of the birth of Servant of God Pedro Arrupe S J 1907-1991 superior general of the Society of Jesus from 1965 to 1983 nbsp The Irish Province has a fine website up though some of their links are on the fritz on the man called by some the Second Founder of the Jesui