What can we say about the killings in the Sikh temple in Wisconsin and the slaughter in the Aurora movie theater and the string of a dozen similar massacres over the past ten years nbsp that hasn rsquo t been said several times I tend to focus on the guns If these men had not owned these weapons
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Letters
Substance Abuse Re “State of Disunion,” by Thomas R. Murphy, S.J., (7/16): I cannot imagine any set of circumstances under which it will be possible to bridge the partisan divide in this country in my lifetime. The primary reason is that the overwhelming majority of Americans are not pro
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Labor’s Love Lost? As the editors note in “Union Sunset?” (Editorial, 7/2), there are reasons for concern about the future of organized labor, the failed recall of Gov. Scott Walker in Wisconsin being an important one. That will fuel an anti-union movement already under way that ig
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Readings: Two Brave Bishops
This is about the need for dialogue in the church The springboard consists of two essays I read recently that dealt indirectly with women rsquo s ordination but the real topic was the effort of two great American bishops who courageously pursued the discussion They sensed that the ordinat
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Quote Bias I agree with the editorial “Gender Bias” (6/18). As a Catholic woman, however, I do find it interesting that Pope Paul VI is quoted, followed by the sentence: “It is difficult to convince some societies of the value of an unborn girl, if the society does not see the inhe
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Islamists Threaten Chrisitans
Islamist militants have claimed responsibility for the deaths of more than 50 people in north-central Nigeria
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Mumble Mass Re “Grading the Missal” (5/28): I am a pastor of a large urban parish. Six months after the introduction of the new translation of the Roman Missal, my all-too-common experience is that, rather than more fully engaging the people in the pews in the celebration of Eucharist, t
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Readings: What If Obama Wins?
I was just starting to read Ryan Lizza rsquo s ldquo The Second Term What Would Obama Do If Reelected rdquo in The New Yorker when my friend Dave Baugnon a filmmaker from New Orleans asked me the same question Now I find that the more I read the more a gap grows between what I would like him
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Kmiec: Why Obama Will Win Health Care Case
Douglas W Kmiec U S Ambassador ret a legal scholar and the Caruso Family Chair in Constitutional Law amp Human Rights at Pepperdine University in Malibu California sent us this guest blog today Empathy Applied– Why President Obama will win the health care case Those predicting defeat