A Greater Reality: Faith, the final frontier

Imagine this: Against long odds, you, a midcareer anthropologist working with four other university teams, have gained grant support from the U.S. National Science Foundation and permission from the government of Brazil to be the sole research team allowed to investigate a newly discovered tribe of

by Thomas A. Cahill

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Marriage JusticeRe “Remarriage, Mercy and Law,” by The Editors (9/22): As a Catholic happily living in a sacramental marriage, I deeply value the indissoluble nature of that union. But my limited experience of people who have divorced is that almost always the divorce was inevitable, or

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Modern ‘Republic’

When I was in doctoral studies in philosophy a Jesuit professor in another discipline asked me what my dissertation topic was ldquo Plato rdquo he chafed ldquo What could you possibly have to say about Plato that hasn rsquo t already been said rdquo His remark provided me with ample motivat

by M. Ross Romero

Back-Pedalling

There rsquo s no place better suited for supermen than long distance cycling Take the Tour de France the sport rsquo s greatest race This year rsquo s event covers 3 656 km over 21 days think Detroit to Los Angeles with the Alps standing in for the Rockies and the Pyrenees for the Sierras…

by Perry Petrich

The Hurt Life

I rsquo ve heard it said hurt people hurt If anyone was ever hurt as a child not physically but emotionally it was Tennessee Williams His mother Edwina rsquo s denial did the hurting denial she turned into an art form which her son turned into art And John Lahr senior drama critic of The…

by Franklin Freeman

African Journeys: Novels from the diaspora

The African novel has come of age in the early 21st century North American diaspora Straddling homelands histories myths looking for values and identity somewhere in between mdash those are the grand topics of the African novel ldquo Novelists are sorted by the language they wrote in rdquo St

by Jon M. Sweeney

Woman Of All Seasons

Few works deliver on the promise of their title with such success as Mary Christine Athans rsquo s book on Mary The scholarship is solid the prose accessible and her personal reflections engaging The book can also be provocative since discussions of Mary lead to questions about the contested rol

by Sidney Callahan

The Word

Payment Due

One of Jesus rsquo most famous sayings challenges us to consider a simple question what do I owe to whom The saying is mellifluous in the King James translation ldquo Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar rsquo s and unto God the things that are God rsquo s rdquo It is tea

by John W. Martens

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Of Other Things

Body-Building

Both saints and celebrities are often reduced to mere ideas or idols, avatars of their flesh and blood bodies.

by Kerry Weber

Signs Of the Times

Air Strikes Will Aid ISIS

Expanded airstrikes on Islamic State positions in Syria serve as little more than a recruiting tool for extremists and place more innocent people in danger, the leadership of Pax Christi International said on Sept. 23. The three top leaders of the Catholic peace organization also called upon the wor

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Returning to her home in Miami after a month-long assignment to West Africa, Dr. Aileen Marty, a former U.S. Navy doctor and expert in infectious diseases, said on Sept. 22 that the deadly Ebola outbreak will be contained only if all ports of entry in the region are adequately screened for infected

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