A priest’s alcoholism becomes the parish’s affliction, too. Every week or so, Father Ray toted a suitcase past the rectory offices. “Dry cleaning,” he’d say...
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If Catholics know anything at all about the Bible, we know that there are four gospels. But every so often, a newly discovered ancient text hits the headlines...
Care for all human life begins with protecting our planet. When Cardinal Joseph Bernardin proposed a “consistent ethic of life” 30 years ago, he argued that to...
There has been a death in my family—two actually, or 60,000, depending on how you count. To be specific, neither of my two beehives survived the winter of...
Perhaps only the global drug trade has been less scrutinized than the $70 billion annual market in conventional weapons. The world community took a significant...
By Anne Lamott (Riverhead Books, 2012) Leave it to Anne Lamott to take something that feels overwhelming, then put it on our plates and cut it up for us into...
By Paula Fredriksen (Princeton, 2012) While it sounds a daunting task to explore the shifting Christian idea of sin as it progressed through the first four...
Jim James (ATO Records, 2013) Kentucky rock outfit My Morning Jacket made its name in the early 2000s off its signature brew of country and psychedelic rock...
Directed by Pablo Larraín (Sony Pictures, 2012) Topple a dictator with a rainbow and a jingle? Lash back against oppression with candy-coated images and...
Here are some interesting new book releases for May: May 2013 Fleeing Herod: A Journey Through Coptic Egypt with the Holy Family By James Cowan After Jesus was...
