For 16 years I prayed them with my entire family before Christmas. I prayed them as a teenager, for the repose of the soul of parents of friends; I prayed them...
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We’ve all seen the Hallmark version: the loving, happy, laughing family gathered around the Christmas tree. Then there’s real life. Father John...
Here's the intel: This war, evidently, is being fought on two fronts. First, the pious pundits of fair and balanced cable TV news have determined that...
Church teaching on gay and lesbian people must reflect their dignity as God’s daughters and sons. Homosexuality has claimed the job of another employee...
How to Go From a Good Evangelical to a Committed Catholic in 95 Difficult Steps By Christian Smith (Cascade Books, 2011) Thomas Kuhn’s 1962 book The Structure...
Comfort By Brett C. Hoover (Riverhead Books, 2011) Don’t let the fuzzy slippers on the cover fool you: Brett C. Hoover’s book Comfort: An Atlas for the Body...
The translators of the new Mass prayers have neglected one cardinal rule: Consider your audience. As the days dwindled before their triumphal entry, the new...
Working in Tennessee Merle Haggard (Vanguard Records, 2011) Merle Haggard has been a monument of American culture for almost 50 years. His life story is the...
A Dreamer’s Christmas By John Zorn (Tzadik, 2011) If Christmas has something to do with wonder and the joy of the unexpected then news of John Zorn...
Catholic colleges are learning the right way to answer when a victim of sexual assault calls for help. Student Elizabeth “Lizzy” Seeberg committed suicide on...
