Like many of our readers I suspect I turn immediately to the letters page when I open up a magazine or newspaper Two recent letters on two different articles stood out this week and I think they re worth highlighting here The first is in response to Bill Keller s review of Absolute Monarchs A
Tim Reidy
Tim Reidy is the deputy editor in chief of America Media.
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In Guatemala, An Apology for Torture
From Envio magazine via Mirada Global In the morning of the 15th of May 1984 young Carlos Cuevas Molina was riding his motorbike to the historical center of Guatemala City when he was intercepted by two cars driving against the traffic Witnesses who recorded the license plates numbers saw how his
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The Legacy of Ernesto Sabato
From Criterio magazine via Mirada Global a tribute to the late Argentinian writer He would have made it to being a century old if it hadn rsquo t occurred to him to die two months short of his 100th birthday Argentinean writer Ernesto Sabato was born in Rojas a city in the pampa 240 km from Bue
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Video Pilgrimage: The Shrine of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
Just posted to our home page this video pilgrimage to the shrine if Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini in Manhattan Thanks to Fr Jim Martin and Kerry Weber for their on and off air talents We hope to post more of these over the course of the summer Tim Reidy nbsp
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St Gilbert of Fleet Street and Beaconsfield
The Times Literary Supplement has posted this essay on the cheeriness of G K Chesterton free online You must read it The piece is occasioned by Ian Ker s new biography of Chesterton which will be reviewed in our pages soon But particularly intriguing are Bernard Manzo s reflections on a book
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Capturing the Triune God
Here is another homily from Fr Bill O Malley who has an article in this week s America The homily below is for June 19 Holy Trinity Sunday Click here to read Fr O Malley s homily from Pentecost I know you rsquo re all breathless with anticipation for the new liturgical changes that begin next
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The Spirit Waits
In conjunction with Fr William O Malley s article in the current issue of America we will be posting a few of his homilies to The Good Word this week Fr O Malley is a noted homilist and author who has taught high school students for over forty years You can read some of Fr O Malley s other h
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Do Rocks Go to Heaven?
And now for something completely different Enjoy Tim Reidy
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For Brazil, A Woman President
From Criterio magazine via Mirada Global From the first day of the year Brazil has started to go through a completely different experience having a woman president for the first time President Dilma Roussef starts the lineage of women presidents in Brazil And this entails hopes and challenges f
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Editors’ Roundtable Podcasts
To keep the Web site lively over the summer months we will be featuring biweekly podcast discussions with the editors We ll be talking about a range of items just like we do here at In All Things This week Tim Reidy Fr Jim Martin and Regina Nigro talk about the weighty themes addressed in