The Star of Christmas By Maria T DiVencenzo with illustrations by Elaine S. Verstraete (Winterlake Press, 2009) Opening the Christmas tree box is an emotional...
Articles
It’s OK if you don’t like beets. There’s a dish for every taste on the Catholic table. Jesus must have enjoyed eating. If his opponents...
For more than a decade, stories in the media have highlighted the problem of clergy sexual abuse of minors. Much of the recent focus has been on Europe, though...
When I heard the news that four U.S. church women, including Jean Donovan, were raped and killed in El Salvador on Dec. 2, 1980, I was a senior at Duke...
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...
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...