Gaudí perfectly provokes us Puritans.
Ideas
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Hunger strikes and the desperate desire for justice
Hunger strikes raise thorny political, philosophical and even spiritual questions.
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The problem with U.S. hockey: racial diversity
When I played hockey, other players of color were few and far between.
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Figure skating deserves your attention more than every four years.
The Winter Olympics are upon us once again, and once again, figure skating steps out of its burrow of athletic obscurity.
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The art of Jesuit Rome comes to Connecticut
Bernini’s magnificent marble bust of St. Robert Bellarmine had made its way to Fairfield University.
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Cowboy, Engineer, Saint: On the Trail of St. José Brochero
Brochero set out to be a pastor, and in the process became the public servant par excellence.
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Creationism isn’t about science, it’s about theology (and it’s really bad theology)
The Creation Museum is a $27 million example of how Christians can lose their way fighting the culture wars.
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Dominican slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo on sex, identity and Catholicism
In “The Poet X,” Elizabeth Acevedo captures the complicated relationship many Dominicans have with Catholicism, particularly focusing on the ways in which faith can affect women.
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What being one of the first black Tiny Tims taught me about the Incarnation
Christ joined and redeemed the whole human family in all of our complex and beautiful diversity.
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The secular world has turned Thanksgiving into madness.
We hear so much about how stringent the church is, how unreasonable in her strictures, how strict in her unreasonableness. But there is no institution so unforgiving as the secular world at this, the most wonderful time of the year.