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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

There seems to be an H1N1-like outbreak of namecalling and general well outspokenness in the past few days nbsp From the now-famous Congressman-slash-pariah or slash-folk-hero depending on your political views Joe Wilson You lie to an apoplectic nbsp Serena Williams mouthing off to the l

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

Another Jesuit from Philadelphia I m a proud one tipped me off to this frankly alarming news story about the closing temporary they hope nbsp of all public libraries in the vast Philadelphia Library system including the nbsp massive Free Library of Philadelphia in Center City which has been

We re delighted to be able to offer you this online review of one of my favorite new movies of the summer the marvelous 500 Days of Summer nbsp In several interviews the actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel as well as the director nbsp Marc Webb nbsp made it clear that they wan

Okay I know it s not going to convince any hardcore atheists or maybe even to wavering agnostics nbsp But it s hard to look at these photos from the newly restored Hubble telescope and not wonder how nbsp someone can still nbsp doubt God s hand in something nbsp like this nbsp nbsp Random this

What do you get when you cross a nbsp top-flight theologian with one of the summer s hottest movies nbsp This provocative review of the sci-fi hit District 9 by Fr Robert Barron now on our online Culture section nbsp The new movie about a ragtag band of lost malnourished aliens nbsp who in

Tired of controversy nbsp How about something as Monty Python used to say completely different nbsp Here goes Webster Bull runs a company called Memoirs Unlimited which helps authors write personal and private family memoirs nbsp In 1988 he and his wife started a company called Commonweal