Six years ago, I was at a Fourth of July party when a woman I know handed me a photocopied sheet. “I’m asking everyone to pray this novena for my fiancé’s...
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Just when I thought I’d outgrown mentors, a friend introduced me to David Stang. His enthusiasm for his favorite subject, his sister Dorothy, is contagious...
I once thought that to be Catholic meant to eat meat. It wasn’t a holiday without Mass, Polish sausage, and turkey or ham. Even my family Christmas cookie...
By Joseph Stiglitz (W.W. Norton & Co., 2012) Pope Paul VI argued that excessive economic inequalities were a “danger to peace” and that political power...
When President Dwight Eisenhower laid the cornerstone of the National Council of Churches building in New York in 1958, David L. Holmes stood in the crowd of...
By Elaine Pagels (Viking Press, 2012) Seven-headed dragons, locusts with human faces, and armies of monsters could all be elements in popular fantasy novels...
Directed by Jake Schreier (Samuel Goldwyn Films, 2012) Christopher Ford and Jake Schreier’s film is a quirky, amusing, and occasionally honest caper...
The Citizens Band (Press Hear Records, 2012) Pop music and musicians have long been an integral part of our presidential election circus. The non-partisan...
Fifty years after the game-changing Second Vatican Council a new generation helps the church respond to today’s signs of the times. Father Benezet Bujo...
Fifty years after the game-changing Second Vatican Council a new generation helps the church respond to today’s signs of the times. John Wilkens asks, What can...
