“The art of prophecy is very difficult,” Mark Twain once said, “especially with respect to the future.” Surprisingly, Twain’s words pretty much describe...
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Directed by Drew Barrymore (Fox Searchlight, 2009) In Drew Barrymore’s new film about tattooed Texas lasses on skates, Ellen Page, who played...
I worked for more than a decade as the editor of a busy little weekly newspaper, and I often complained that the people who stopped by my office “just to...
In late 1995 Archbishop Desmond Tutu was looking forward to his retirement when South Africa’s President Nelson Mandela appointed him chairperson of the...
By Timothy Beal (HarperOne, 2009) Timothy Beal wants you-to read the Bible. Actually, he's making the case that everybody should. His argument is simple...
Yo La Tengo (Matador Records, 2009) First off, Yo La Tengo is not a salsa band. They're not even Hispanic. They are white, artsy-bohemian types in their...
The nation's most vulnerable children are getting the short end of the spending stick. Spending more and getting less: sound familiar? A recent assessment...
The high pitch of pro-life advocacy could heed some old-fashioned parental guidance. I normally wouldn't pass as an applause line, but Archbishop Michael...
Like any enlisted man or woman, Catholic chaplains have go training, and they don't get special treatment. U.S. Navy chaplain Father David Daigle, a...
The key to a thriving parish is not so much what goes on inside, says this longtime pastor, but what its members are doing beyond its walls. In his book...
