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Fencing with bigots
…being an imaginary dialogue between a nominee to a Federal appeals court and members of the Committee on the Judiciary of what...
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The transmigration of theological nonsense
During the Long Lent of 2002, Sister Betsy Conway, who lived in the Bostonian epicenter of the clerical sexual abuse crisis, spoke...
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A memoir I never expected to write
When the second volume of my John Paul II biography, The End and the Beginning, was published in 2010, I thought I...
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Speaker Ryan invites a social doctrine conversation
CNN is not the customary locale-of-choice for a catechesis on Catholic social doctrine. But that’s what Paul Ryan, Speaker of the U.S....
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5.1KVenerating Saint Padre Pio
This article was posted on: September 6, 2017
Making a pilgrimage to the site of a beloved saint is a great privilege and is not something everyone gets the opportunity...
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Superheroes? Stardust? Or vessels of the Incarnation?
When I was first introduced to the fascinations of the DNA double-helix in a biology class at Baltimore’s St. Paul Latin High...
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1.7KA Work of Love
This article was posted on: September 5, 2017
A Work of Love In August, several students from Regis Catholic Schools took part in a summer service camp, called ‘A Work...
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Domesticating the divinity
Some biblical scholars consider the Book of Deuteronomy to be a collection of sermons: catechetical homilies on the great theme of the...
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It’s a culture war, stupid
Those who persist in denying that the Church is engaged in a culture war, the combatants in which are aptly called the...
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Stay Calm
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote: “Most of us reflect our surroundings. However, men (and women) with quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened;...