A teacher’s take on ‘Waiting for Superman’
America Staff
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September-October Selection
The authors’ previous work, Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy, which recounted the shooting of schoolchildren in Nickel Mines, Pa., was a CBC selection in the fall of 2007 and became a national bestseller and a television movie. Drawing on the authors’ personal interviews and firsthand experience, their follow-up book, The Amish Way, probes the spirituality and practices of this fascinating culture and its adherents. Its 12 chapters offer a window into the meaning of community, living together, children and family, nature, evil and more.
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How to Succeed in College V: Join the Newspaper Staff
A week ago a Fordham College student took his own life At least one of the New York tabloids published the story and it made the Internet but the Times passed it up The Fordham Ram gave it two stories on page one He was a bright promising honors program prep school freshman Though bril
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Letters
The Model Gentleman “Conspiracy of Bishops and Faithful,” by Drew Christiansen, S.J. (9/27), reminds me that the 19th-century prose and even the poetry of John Henry Newman may be a little hard for today’s readers to digest. But to read him, even to meditate on his seamless logic,
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Shortsighted Your comment “The Real Islam” (8/30) is shortsighted. The real Islam is either powerless—or unwilling—to take down the death squads and training centers of terrorists in their midst. These terrorists are knocking down our gates in the name of God on every front,
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How to Succeed in College IV: Cardinal Newman
Unless you have been on the moon or in a prison cellar during the past month you have seen or read something about John Henry Cardinal Newman one of the great 19th century intellectuals of the English church and the man for whom Pope Benedict XVI traveled last week to England to declare ldq
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Relax, They Won’t Hurt I have just perused the changes referred to in “Musicians Prepare for Coming Changes in Mass Text” (8/2). They are very minor. They seem to reflect a return to translations that older members might remember from the joint Latin-English missals. In this respec
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A Tour of the Rooms of St. Ignatius.
Couldn t resist posting this from my friend Mike Rogers S J nbsp For all you Ignatius-lovers out there here is a tour of his rooms near at the Church of the Gesu in Rome nbsp Enjoy your ten-minute nbsp hand-held video nbsp pilgrimage nbsp nbsp And that music from The Mission by Ennio M
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How to Succeed in College III: Studytime Strategies
You rsquo re not going to like what I say But in college mdash as in any sport family life and any job where you want to nbsp nbsp keep the job and get ahead mdash there is no substitute nbsp for hard work nbsp It comes as a shock to students to hear that nbsp there is a consensus among