By John Delaney This article appeared in the November 1983 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 48, No. 11, pages 31-33). Among the Catholic customs that went out the...
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Linus, Cletus, Clement, Sixtus, Cornelius, Cypnan, Lawrence, Chrysogonus, John and Paul, Cosmos and Damian – remember them? For centuries they were...
Carl Sagan has been described as America’s “most effective salesman of science.” A colleague at Cornell University, where Sagan is professor of astronomy and...
There isn’t much sense talking about “roots” unless you can also point to flowers, fruits, leaves, fronds, seeds. Thus we point to what the poets call the...
By Dan Grippo This article appeared in the December 1979 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 44, No. 12, pages 23-24). Christmas. I’m sick of fighting my way into...
Nearly every human being has experienced at least one intensely significant moment in life. The relative infrequency and the fleeting nature of these moments...
Religious devotions are a little like lost-and-found objects. Something gets lost, at least in the sense of losing sight of it. And then we come on it again...
By Michael Christopher This article appeared in the September 1979 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 44, No. 9, pages 49-51). It is a contemporary truism...
Suppose someone decided to take the Gospels of Christ literally: to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, harbor the harborless. What would he or she be like? The...
This article appeared in the September 1968 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 34, No. 5, pages 21-24). An interview with theologian Mary Daly Dr. Mary Daly is a...
