We collaborate with God’s grace and find conformity with Christ, by acknowledging our creaturehood, our temptations, our distractions and expectations, our doubts, our grudges, our compulsions, and by allowing “Christ to pray for us, with us, and in us.”
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An immigrant story for everyone
The familiarity of the language and the story in Andrew Krivák’s “The Signal Flame” is an homage to how people, be they siblings, friends, sons and fathers, mothers and sons or sons and lovers, communicate with each other, by word or gesture.
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The unknown role of Christian women in the early church
With Crispina and Her Sisters, Christine Schenk, C.S.J., has performed a singular service in making accessible additional sources about early Christian women.
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Why the Catholic Church can (and does) change
Review of Ross Douthat’s latest book, “To Change the Church.”
While the church always strives to honor what Jesus said about divorce and remarriage, it has made pastoral accommodations since its earliest days.
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An archbishop nicknamed ‘Dagger John’
When a historical figure has a reputation as large as John Hughes, it can be hard to separate fact from fiction.
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The casualties of war
Soldiers are rarely those who suffer the most in war.
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Hard truths about white supremacy in America
How intertwined are American Christian beliefs in a “Chosen People” and American notions of racial superiority?
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Can we fix our broken political system?
How can we repair the damage done to our governmental processes?
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Rethinking the life and presidency of Ulysses S. Grant
For Ulysses S. Grant, history has finally decided to be kind.
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Reading Islam’s holy book
In What the Qur’an Meant and Why It Matters, Garry Wills offers what he hopes can be a remedy to this fear: an invitation to pick up the Quran and read it, as he has done.