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Sing the Delta Iris DeMent (Flariella Records, 2012) At 51, Iris DeMent is no spring chicken, but her music can seem like a time capsule from someplace long...
Kendrick Lamar (Aftermath, 2012) A warning to our readers: This album uses explicit language standard in the hip-hop vernacular. On his major-label debut...
Christianity After Religion By Diana Butler Bass (HarperOne, 2012) Older Catholics frequently wonder where all the young people have gone and how to get them...
After giving one of the three plenary addresses on the Eucharist at a gathering of the Catholic Theological Society of America in 1997, church historian Gary...
While not all single mothers are financially strapped, the poverty rate for families headed by single mothers, at 42 percent, is almost three times the rate...
Flight Directed by Robert Zemeckis (Paramount, 2012) Ernest Hemingway wrote that courage was “grace under pressure,” and in Flight director Robert Zemeckis has...
Those least responsible for our flood of climate change concerns are bearing the brunt of the storm. A year after the twin blows of Hurricane Irene and the...
When tragedy hits, think twice before claiming what God intended. Of the many issues that drove last November’s election, few might have guessed that “God’s...
We were called Immaculata. We were called Concepta. We were called Chrysostom, Eusebius, and Stanislaus, after a Polish boy-saint. We were called Bernard...
