Mary Karr’s gritty stories of sin and salvation show us that grace is not always graceful.
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” Just Asking Re the Signs of the Times item “Church Membership Trends Downward” (9/12): Total births from 2000 to 2009 in the United States did not fall, but rose slightly during the first decade of the century to 4,131,019 from 4,058,814. But the statistics are not broken down accordin
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People of the Book: Celebrating Catholic books and bookstores
Heed the words of St. Thomas Aquinas and do not become “a man of one book.”
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From Pages to Pixels: Will texts and tweets replace reading?
As we tweet and hyperlink, can we sustain the concentration required for real discovery?
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A Higher Beauty: Gerard Manley Hopkins meets Elizabeth Taylor
Gerard Manley Hopkins meets Elizabeth Taylor
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Really Human: Secular artists and saintly lives
To find evidence of the value of Christian holiness, we should look beyond the experience of believers.
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Watson, Don’t Come Quickly!: ‘Jeopardy,’ HAL, Captain Kirk and Us
Now that we can see what computers can do, are we carbon-based life forms the ones in jeopardy?
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Our Words and our Selves: Marie Ponsot and the rediscovery of language
Marie Ponsot and the rediscovery of language
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Alt-Honeymoon: Seeking the sacred in Prague
In Prague, many of the stops on the tourist trail left us dissatisfied, but we found what we needed.
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Dearest Forster: The love letters of Dorothy Day
For years after their separation, Dorothy Day continued to hope that her former lover would agree to marry her.