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Lip Service In “A Prayer for Malala” (11/5), the editors write, “The church has repeatedly promoted the full and equal dignity of women, and by extension girls, in a world where many societies are hostile to that notion.” I wish I could believe that statement, but I do not.

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Homecoming

Anthony Shadid put his life in harm rsquo s way so many times that his death in February 2012 has come to seem foreordained Here was a reporter who made his name in the crosshairs of war in Iraq of course but also in Israel and Lebanon In 2002 he was shot by an Israeli…

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There is an ancient story that depicts a man entering the gates of heaven Once inside he discovers nothing but a place to sit facing a huge wall When he asks his escort St Peter for an explanation Peter says ldquo You have but entered the antechamber of paradise Paradise itself is on the ot

People, Look East

The Book of Baruch is a beautifully poetic biblical text that takes us back to the period of the Exile a time of darkness for Israel They are a broken people far from their homeland which was ravaged by the Babylonians Just before our reading desolate Jerusalem speaks as a mother to her lost c

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