As a Catholic school kid living in the Bible belt South, I grew up as a religious minority. When I was invited to attend an interfaith conference in Jordan...
Articles
The Unsheltered Heart: An At-Home Advent Retreat by Ronald Patrick Raab, C.S.C. (Ave Maria Press, 2010) At first glance, the title of this book is not the most...
Write About Love By Belle and Sebastian (Matador Records, 2010) I have a really bad attitude about the clever, collegiate, and self-consciously catchy indie...
What’s the point of being a Christian? Father Timothy Radcliffe, O.P. answers this question in a book and this 2006 interview with U.S. Catholic. He...
Hereafter Directed by Clint Eastwood (Warner Brothers, 2010) For almost half a century Clint Eastwood has been making films about death, but nearly all of...
Full of Grace By Judith Dupré Random House, 2010 Books about Mary often become a cover for a particular ideology. If the devil can quote scripture, then any...
Walking Together: Discovering the Catholic Tradition of Spiritual Friendship by Mary DeTurris Poust (Ave Maria Press, 2010) Our world does not seem to allow...
Los Lobos (Shout Factory!, 2010) Former Secretary of Labor Linda Chavez, among others, has argued that current levels of immigration from Mexico are somehow...
The land of Jesus’ birth may soon be without Christians to celebrate it. At eventide the square of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem lights up like a...
The new translation of the liturgy will speak volumes about the church that prays it. November 28, 2010, the First Sunday of Advent, marks the beginning not...