Rodney Crowell, Mary Karr, et al. (Vanguard, 2012) Over the past 16 years as I’ve read Mary Karr’s three memoirs, I’ve always heard Rodney Crowell’s music as...
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Is the bishops’ work to empower the poor Catholic enough? An alliance of pro-life groups says it’s not. It was the brainchild of a Chicago priest, Michael...
August 2012: Psalm-Shaped Prayerfulness: A Guide to the Christian Reception of the Psalms By Margaret Daly-Denton Review: Beginning with Jesus himself, the...
Even in their autumn years, Baby Boomers discover that old dogs can learn new tricks. Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rage at...
Created by David Simon (HBO Entertainment, 2012) David Simon, whose HBO series The Wire was the best cinematic novel ever produced for television, has...
Banning the Big Gulp isn’t enough to tip the scales in America’s obesity epidemic. Gluttony is the only one of the not-so-magnificent seven that is literally a...
Divorce has doubled for couples over 50. Empty nesters share tales from the brink. Even before Dick and Irene Reimbold’s younger daughter left for college...
Former Episcopal priests are crossing over to the Catholic Church—and bringing their wives and kids along for the ride. Chuck Hough III was thrilled when his...
Douglas W. Kmiec, author of the new book Lift Up Your Hearts, is a famous constitutional scholar, former dean of the Catholic University law school, chaired...
James Joyce said it best in Finnegans Wake that “Catholic means here comes everybody.” Our word “catholic” comes from a Greek adjective meaning “universal” and...
