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Our online editor Tim Reidy and I are currently battling for supremacy in the contest of who is the bigger Mad Men fan nbsp Here we are on this week s podcast talking about the philosophical and theological underpinnings of the hit AMC show–not to mention the hidden meanings in its name how

Here is a nbsp remarkable piece by Donald Wuerl the archbishop of Washington in Politics Daily nbsp which sounds almost like a homily reminding readers that health care is an issue that has long been part of Catholic social teaching h t to Grant Gallicho at Dotcommonweal We teach that health

Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum nbsp Oprah Winfrey s Book Club has chosen Say You re One of Them the best-selling short-story collection by Uwem Akpan S J the Nigerian Jesuit who you may have first read about and read he wrote for us several years ago in our pages nbsp Here s a brief Of Man

Talks with between the Vatican and the formerly breakaway Society of St Pius X are about to begin in late October nbsp As our former associate and longtime and beloved editor John W Donohue used to say Stay tuned nbsp Here s the story from Zenit VATICAN CITY SEPT 15 2009 Zenit or

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For sighing comes more readily to me than food and my groans well forth like water Job 3 25 The drought currently plaguing Kenya has brought searing images of thirsty and hungry people into our living rooms or onto our computer screens nbsp Despite our sympathy sometimes it is hard to understan