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Step one: Open the book

My older sister gave me my first Bible when I went away to college. It sat on a shelf in the dorm for months unopened. Frankly I might never have used it if...

Cracks in the system

Deferring infrastructure maintenance for war spending builds a bridge to nowhere. After watching coverage of the minneapolis-St. Paul I-35W bridge collapse...

How green is your faith?

We should honor God the Father by caring for our Mother Earth. A recent dispute among Christians brought the gospel to the front page once again in August. At...

No more CARE packages

Instead of dumping grain in poverty-stricken regions, we should be investing cash. Bags of wheat or rice, stamped "U.S.A." and pitched onto a...

More than words

Rather than threaten our Christian faith, exploring the language and spiritual practices of other religious traditions may instead make us better Catholics...