I wonder if there is a new fascination for books about books especially those books we call classics Recently a group of sketches by Italo Calvino was published as Why Read the Classics Not long ago David Denby offered Great Books My Adventures With Homer Rousseau Woolf and Other Indestructib
The readings today leave most Catholics ill at ease and puzzled and they often relegate their message to fundamentalist television evangelists shouting about the coming end of the world Malachi thought that the day of the Lord was coming and it did not come Jesus says that ldquo this generation
Synod RoundupCalling the Synod of Bishops that met in October almost a new beginning for the church, Pope John Paul II urged bishops to promote church teaching courageously and work for church unity. During a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the closing of the synod on Oct. 27, the pope praise