One way of evacuating a funeral home via the back door is to have a priest come up the front stairs. Catholics of a certain vintage, such as those with vague...
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Holy days of obligation-days when Catholics are required to celebrate Eucharist-are a result of tradition, devotion, and church law, and their number has...
“The 40 days of Lent” has always been more of a metaphor than a literal count. Over the course of history the season of preparation for Easter...
At the heart of our faith is the Passion, death, and Resurrection of Jesus. We celebrate this mystery—this Paschal Mystery—every Sunday, in every Eucharist...
“LATE HAVE I LOVED YOU, O Beauty so ancient and so new. Late have I love you!” So prayed the passionate theologian and pastor of the early church, St...
Wine possesses a multi-layered significance that brings Christians into communion with Christ but also with one another, with our Jewish heritage, and with...
Steve Earle (New West, 2007) Steve Earle is, without question, the most overtly political artist in American popular culture. For a long time his activism (and...
Edited by Angelo Matera (Ave Maria Press, 2008) If the essayists in a new Godspy.com book are living Faith at the Edge, as the book is named, the majority of...
Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky (Sony Pictures Classics, 2007) Holocaust films often present concentration camp inmates as if they were only victims, not complex...
Directed by Kimberly Peirce (Paramount, 2008) Five years and more than 4,000 U.S. deaths after the president declared "mission accomplished," the...
