I, a Catholic and a Jesuit, am grateful for this Muslim holy season for challenging me to be a more dedicated child of God.
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Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How interfaith exploration made me a better Catholic
Our conversations, especially those about the nature of God and our relationship with God, led me to an understanding of the similarities between Islam and Catholicism. Our smiles grew wide when the words of biblical and Koranic stories about Abraham matched up almost perfectly.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
The Political Is Personal
Always try to do too much must be taken as one of Salman Rushdie’s mantras and he certainly lives up to it here This sprawling story flashes back and forth from pre-World War II Strasbourg to present-day Los Angeles touchesat least fleetinglyon every major world crisis from the Holocaust to
Posted inFaith
When Muslims and Christians Marry
A study by Creighton University’s Center for Marriage and Family in 1999 indicates that today roughly 40 percent of all Catholics marry non-Catholics.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vantage Point
The controversy over Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses’
From 1989: The controversy surrounding ‘The Satanic Mysteries’ is a paradigm of the difficulties that have existed over the centuries between Islam and the West.