Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard (F-Stop/Atlantic Record/2009) Since his death in 1969, beat novelist Jack Kerouac has become a pop-culture perennial. Each...
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Two decades ago a remarkable woman died. The New York Times carried her obituary; the Jackson, Mississippi NBC affiliate televised her funeral; Mike Wallace...
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Just one day after the 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, the Claretian Missionaries religious order in Santo...
Our place in the church isn’t determined by politics or policy. If there’s one lesson Americans can take from the last 12 months of our political...
When horrible things happen in the world, it’s natural to seek an explanation. Explanations offer a sense of control and meaning in situations that seem...
Up in the Air directed by Jason Reitman (Paramount Pictures, 2009) The most unbelievable thing about Jason Reitman's slick black comedy is that there...
Inspired by the people featured in our Catholic workers story, but still can’t think of where you might want to get involved? The U.S. Catholic editors...
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits By Linda Gordon (W. W. Norton & Company, 2009) In the 1930s President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Farm...
The ancient Greek word hairesis meant “choice” and identified one’s intellectual “choice” among the many philosophies of late antiquity. The word originally...
We should be helping America’s young people really be all that they can be. Despite the grim toll taken in what is becoming a war of attrition in Afghanistan...
