In her fourth book, The Virgin of Prince Street: Expeditions Into Devotion, Sonja Livingston introduces herself as a “pilgrimess” returning to her childhood church in Rochester, N.Y., after not regularly attending Mass for 20 years.
History
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A Catholic Sister learns to serve people with AIDS
In the fifth episode of “Plague,” Mike visits the small Midwestern city of Belleville, Illinois, where a Catholic Sister broke ground in the 1980s by opening an organization to provide services for people living with HIV and AIDS.
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A gay Catholic Church in the Castro
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Angry, glad, heartbroken? There’s a Psalm for that.
The Psalms lengthen the moment, enlarge the experience and connect a private experience to those of other human beings. Wonder fades if we do not “back it up.”
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Surviving the AIDS crisis as a gay Catholic
In “Plague,” Michael O’Loughlin investigates untold stories of AIDS and the Catholic Church.
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How the Jesuits of ‘America’ heroically defended booze against Prohibition
While Prohibition’s popularity would wane by the end of the decade because of its unintended consequences, at the time of its ratification and implementation, it enjoyed a fair amount of popular support. Except in the pages of America.
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European bishops mark 30th anniversary of fall of Berlin Wall
Demolition of the already damaged wall began officially in June 1990 and was completed in November 1991.
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Review: Aristotle for the 21st century
Edith Hall’s new book on Aristotle rewards the reader by offering gems from Aristotle’s thought. She puts together complicated concepts and writings in a form where readers can easily identify subjects that are critical to an individual’s opportunity to find happiness.
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James K. A. Smith takes 21st-century readers on pilgrimage with St. Augustine
James K. A. Smith’s new book seems to have been written largely with disaffected evangelicals in mind, those who have “been there, done that and left the stupid Christian T-Shirt at home.”
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Review: Francis Fukuyama on the need for broader identities
Identity is at the heart of much of today’s political conflicts. In his latest book, Fukuyama traces a brief history of how identity came to occupy such a center.