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IssueVol. 131 Issue 009 (May 7 2004)
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Paid articleCorrespondence 'Catholic ignorance'
Killen, David P.; MERELLA, BARTHOLOMEW J.; BLACKBURN, TOM; ROLLER, TOM; Cavadini, John; ALTREUTER, TEDDY C.; GROGAN, JOHN; NUNZ, ROBERT A.; Steinfels, Peter
Teaching the basics John Cavadini's "Ignorant Catholics" (April 9) points to the growing gap between theology and catechetics. Too often theology is seen as a discipline for elites and catechetics...
Paid articleEditorial The war president
Baumann, Paul
The war president One year ago, dressed in a flight suit and striking the pose of a warrior, President George W. Bush landed in a jet on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. Addressing the...
Paid articleEt cetera More Mel?
ET CETERA Mere Mel? So you thought there was nothing more to be written or said about Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. Wrong. Yes, we know that Gibson's controversial movie has dominated the...
Paid articleEt cetera Breakage
ET CETERA Breakage One of the most intriguing revelations made in the recent cavalcade of books about the Bush administration was Secretary of State Colin Powell's attempt to explain one of the...
Paid articleBelief vs unbelief
Garvey, John
JOHN GARVEY BELIEF WS. UNBELIEF Complacency, not religion, is the danger Recently, a book, an article, and an interview made me realize what an odd corner discussion about religion has been backed...
Paid articleHail Mary The Washington Post's Mary McGrory
Jr, E J Dionne
E. J. DIONNE Jr. HAIL MARY A newspaper columnist for the ages Mary McGrory, my longtime colleague who died on April 21, could write rings around us all. But rather than take the compliment, she...
Paid articleANTI-SEMITISM IN 'THE PASSION' A rabbi reflects on Mel Gibson & the Gospels
Greenberg, Irving
ANTI-SEMITISM IN 'THE PASSION' A rabbi reflects on Mel Gibson & the Gospels Irving Greenberg Mel Gibson has fashioned the most successful Pas-sion play of all time. His film, The Passion of the...
Paid articleBLAME THE GOSPELS? A response to Irving Greenberg
Senior, Donald
BLAME THE GOSPELS? A theologian responds Donald Senior Rabbi Irving Greenberg offers not only a penetrating critique of The Passion of the Christ but, more importantly, a respectful but...
Paid articleAlien
Swenson, Karen
Alien What they never show in sci-fi movies is the alien's glee at being one of her kind. ET may get lonesome, but she's tingling with excitement right down to her light bulb finger-tip at...
Paid articleBRUTALLY REAL Box-office appeal of 'The Passion'
Bosco, Mark
BRUTALLY REAL Why 'The Passion' appeals to young people Nark Bosco When I was leaving the Jesuit novitiate and as-signed to teach high school, my novice master told me: "Remember St. Ignatius's...
Paid articleBAD LITTLE BOYS How Gibson portrays children
Musselman, Elizabeth A
BAD LITTLE BOYS The children of 'The Passion' Elizabeth A. Nusselman They are for children, these Gospels. They're for children, they're for old people, they're for everybody in between." So...
Paid articleHold in the Hand Your Many Vows
Coray, Anne
Hold in the Hand Your Many Vows What better morning to profess belief than this; what better hour to hear settling on the grate the burning wood, how easy to purge the conditional. Here, one can...
Paid articleGoodbye Lenin! Kill Bill-Volume 2
Alleva, Richard
Richard Alleva EAST MEETS WESf 'Goodbye, Lenin!' & 'Kill Bill-Volume 2' Round about 1991, as the Soviet Union imploded, Roger Rosenblatt did a television essay for the Mc-Neil/Lehrer NewsHour in...
Paid articleFreethinkers by Susan Jacoby
McGreevy, John T
A faith like any other Freethinkers A History of American Secularism Susiin Jacoby John T. McGreevy President George W. Bush be-gins his cabinet meetings with a prayer; Al Sharpton passes the...
Paid articleThe Devil's Playground by James Traub
Vitullo-Martin, Julia
THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD The Devil,s Playground A Century of Pleasure and Profit in rimes Square James Traub Julia Vitullo-Martin I wish I'd been around when New Yorkers went to Harlem in...
Paid articleHitler and the Vatican by Peter Godman
Marrus, Michael R
MEN OF THEIR TINE & PLACE Hitler and the Vatican Inside the Secret Archives lh.it Reveal the New Story of the Nazis and the Church Peter Godman Michael R. Marrus To a subject plagued by...
Paid articlePriests by Andrew M Greeley
Baker, Thomas
A FEW GOOD MEN Priests A Ctilling in Crisis Andrew M. Greeley Thomas Baker No one is as effective as An-drew Greeley when it comes to using survey data in a street fight. In Priests: A Calling...
Paid articlePreaching Eugenics by Christine Rosen
Lauritzen, Paul
TALLER, SMARTER, PRETTIER Preaching Eugenics Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement Christine Rosen Paul Lauritzen Dn a wonderful essay whose title, "Sorry, But Your Soul Just...
Paid articleName All the Animals by Alison Smith
Cipolla, Benedicta
ARE YOU THERE, GOD? Name All the Animals Alison Smith Benedicts Cipolla These days, memoirs are a dime a dozen. But it's not often that the genre examines the grief of a sibling- and rarer still...
Paid articleBooked
Bordwell, Harold
BOOKED Harold Bor dwell I am in Powell's Burnham Park bookstore, just south of the Loop in Chicago, on a book crawl, and I am thinking of Bruce Cook, friend, and novelist who died in Los Angeles...
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