Church teaching on gay and lesbian people must reflect their dignity as God’s daughters and sons. Homosexuality has claimed the job of another employee...
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How to Go From a Good Evangelical to a Committed Catholic in 95 Difficult Steps By Christian Smith (Cascade Books, 2011) Thomas Kuhn’s 1962 book The Structure...
Comfort By Brett C. Hoover (Riverhead Books, 2011) Don’t let the fuzzy slippers on the cover fool you: Brett C. Hoover’s book Comfort: An Atlas for the Body...
The translators of the new Mass prayers have neglected one cardinal rule: Consider your audience. As the days dwindled before their triumphal entry, the new...
Working in Tennessee Merle Haggard (Vanguard Records, 2011) Merle Haggard has been a monument of American culture for almost 50 years. His life story is the...
A Dreamer’s Christmas By John Zorn (Tzadik, 2011) If Christmas has something to do with wonder and the joy of the unexpected then news of John Zorn...
Catholic colleges are learning the right way to answer when a victim of sexual assault calls for help. Student Elizabeth “Lizzy” Seeberg committed suicide on...
To understand Our Lady of Guadalupe–the powerful story of the 16th-century apparition of Mary to the Indian Juan Diego outside what is now Mexico...
New strategies are paying off for the pro-life movement. Last year a bill came before the Ohio state legislature that held the potential for the biggest pro...
The church requires two miracles before a person can be canonized. Why? A Catholic friar on a plane that made a dramatic emergency landing in Poland last fall...