Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities By Martha Nussbaum (Princeton University Press, 2010) In an age of globalization, governments and...
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What do Jean Paul Sartre, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, John Milton, and Galileo have in common? Required reading for university freshmen? Maybe. These esteemed...
Politics as usual doesn't inspire hope for one Catholic grandfather. Candidates ought to answer the tough questions about who they are, he says. On...
(This story accompanies The need for closure: What happens when a parish closes its doors.) Whatever church leaders do, parishioners aren’t going to be...
The day after their farewell Mass, parishioners of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Church were locked out. Archdiocesan officials had changed the locks days ahead...
American birthright citizenship is downright Constitutional. The birther movement is at it again. No, I’m not talking about the fringe group that...
The church as we know it won’t last if its broad middle begins to shrink. Pop culture journalists had the brass ring of celebrity stories dropped on them in...
My Room in the Trees The Innocence Mission (Badman, 2010) On the Innocence Mission’s most straightforward folk album yet, Karen Peris sings of seasons...
U.S. marriage rates are dropping, while the approval ratings of cohabitation and childbearing before marriage are climbing. Young adult Catholics don’t...
Embraced by God: Facing Chemotherapy with Faith by Steve Givens (Twenty-third Publications, 2010) I have never physically met Steve Givens but we have been...
