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Arts & CultureBooks
Diane Scharper
McFarlane says that she is “drawn to moments when people do things that are mysterious even to themselves.” The best-realized stories here are charged with these moments.
Paul at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. (Flickr photo/Lwp Kommunikáció)
Politics & SocietyOf Other Things
Bill McGarvey
The genius of A.A. is that it is a proto-religious fellowship in which people in desperate need somehow rediscover the fire of a foundational miracle.
Pope Francis prays during a Marian vigil in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Oct. 8. Also pictured is Msgr. Guido Marini, papal master of ceremonies. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
FaithPope Francis Homilies
Pope Francis
"Humility never comes without humiliation. And we see Jesus humiliated on the cross,” said Francis.
FaithIn All Things
Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
I have been deeply influenced by Hinduism in preparing my homilies, but I have almost never mentioning Hinduism from the pulpit.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
In the 'Lord of the Flies,' the one who slanders and scatters, isn’t out there, in the dark, he's within them.
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FaithThe Word
John W. Martens
The introductory line to Jesus rsquo parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector is as important to understand as is the parable itself The Gospel of Luke the only Gospel in which this parable is found sets the scene Following the parable of the unjust judge and the widow Jesus ldquo also t