By Joe Paprocki (Loyola Press, 2013) How many of us endured years of boring religious education classes trying to stay awake and engaged? How many of our...
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Here are some interesting new book releases for March: March 2013 I wasn’t dead when I wrote this: Advice given in the nick of time By Lisa-Marie Calderone...
Most popes take the job to their grave, but a few others before Benedict XVI have opted for early retirement. As news of Benedict XVI’s resignation broke...
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Cardinal-electors are caught in a Catch-22. They are eager to give the world a new pope; however, they need time to pick the right...
Pope Benedict kept us guessing—especially on matters of social justice. Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to become the first pope since Celestine V in 1294 to...
Pope Benedict’s final act may be one of his best gifts to the church. So were you shocked, just shocked, when Pope Benedict XVI resigned back in February...
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — On his last full day as pope, Pope Benedict XVI delivered an unusually personal and emotional farewell address, thanking the...
Luisa Borrego didn’t know much about the prison system before her son, at only 14 years old, was arrested after being in the back seat of a car during a drive...
Since it was first pioneered in the mid-1970s, restorative justice has been used in criminal justice cases throughout the world. But nowhere has the practice...
With U.S. incarceration rates at an unsustainable high, crime victims are taking the lead in an effort to rehabilitate offenders. Lonnie Jones was just 16...
