October 12, 2009

"Sally Cunneen By Miri Rubin Yale Univ. Press. 560p $35 9780300105001 As a 13th-century French poet once said, Mary is “the sea that no one exhausts.” Yet the remarkable cultural history that the medieval historian Miri Rubin has assembled from worldwide resources seems to challenge that

As a French poet once said, Mary is the sea that no one exhausts.

Was Michael Jackson our once and future king? Did his life chart the course of our own?

For adolescenets, iPods and smart phones are more than just consumer goods. They are signs and instruments of status.

Technology does not make people smarter, but it can help them to connect to a cause in which they believe.

The authority of the ordained—a cardinal’s

Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), Oct. 18, 2009