Many of us have heard the saying that “slavery is America’s original sin.” Robert P. Jones, president and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute...
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I first came across the writings of Dominican Father Herbert McCabe about seven years after his death in 2001. At the time, there existed a seemingly endless...
The popular British science fiction series Doctor Who has just celebrated a momentous landmark: 60 years of broadcasting. What started as a modest time-travel...
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Some Catholic apologists talk about the church as though it were a kind of data repository, filled with answers to any possible question a person might have...
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Lent is a powerful and humbling time in which we are implored to “repent and believe in the gospel.” The liturgical progression through Lent should challenge...
In fall of 2020, 89-year-old Buell Hall was shot in the throat while sitting in his home near the village of Freeport, Ohio. The shooter, Jagger Miller, didn’t...