By Stephanie Saldaña (Anchor Books, 2011) The Arab Spring, which began in Tunisia and spread into Egypt and Libya, has become a seemingly inexorable movement...
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I grew up in a family thick with cops and firemen in a New York suburb peopled by cops and firemen, so it was with a special dread that I watched a churning...
This column from the November 2001 issue in response to 9/11 comments that in the face of suffering we ought to seek a wisdom that can lead us out of the...
By Charles E. Curran (Georgetown University Press, 2011) Catholic social teaching has been described as the church’s “best kept secret,” and 130 years after...
When U.S. Catholic readers punch the clock, they don't forget that they are still on God's time, according to a Reader Survey in honor of Labor Day...
Workers might have to go half way around the world to celebrate Labor Day this year. In the United States the union movement still endures a regular...
Fruit of the vine and work of human hands, a meal shared in communion with a friend becomes for us the bread of life. "How much do you want to know?"...
You are at the wedding of a beloved family member or friend, which is taking place at a Lutheran church. You gladly accepted the invitation to celebrate this...
Ollabelle (Thirty Tigers, 2011) On the first track of the new Ollabelle album, a clavinet, sounding like an electrified mouth harp, hacks out a riff that...
September 2011: The Monastery of the Heart: An Invitation to a Meaningful Life By Joan Chittister Review: In her new book, The Monastery of the Heart, Erie...
