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Paid articleLETTERS
letters Gay marriage, FOCA, Israel & Gaza WhO SuPPORTeD PROP 8 & Why? that proposition. Television commercials Robert K. Vischer may have exercised depicting proselytizing Mormons barging a bit...
Paid articleEDITORIAL: Griefs & Anxieties
‘‘The joys and the hopes, the griefs and the anxieties of the men of this age, especially those who are poor or in any way afflicted, these too are the joys and hopes, the griefs and...
Paid articleFast Passes to Paradise?
Henneberger, Melinda
Indulge me, OK? Because while I retained some vague childhood notions about Fast Passes to Paradise, I was surprised to read, on the front page of the February 10 New York Times, that...
Paid articleKeeping Up Appearances
Dionne, E. J. Jr.
The Obama administration keeps having to learn that bland centrism is not pragmatic, it’s not helpful in resolving a big crisis, and it certainly doesn’t buy you any love. Oddly, the recent...
Paid articleSex, Religion & Prop 8: Continuing the conversation
Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
The vote on California’s Proposition 8 in the November election shocked and dismayed the gay community— and surprised others who thought it was a shoo-in vote for the liberal state. Prop 8...
Paid articleBlueprint for Peace: Confronting the global food crisis
Dolan, Timothy
Pope Benedict XVI’s New Year message to mark the World Day of Peace came at a time when the world faces the worst economic recession since World War II. Amid the dire economic news, a message...
Paid articleTable Manners: Christ's lavish hospitality
O'Gara, Margaret
The Gospels describe a characteristic of Jesus that really got the attention of his contemporaries. He was evidently rather surprising in his choice of table companions. He seemed willing...
Paid articleExcerpt from a Novel
Lindeman, Jack
Being one of the upright upon these floorboards which themselves are upon this planet I know what you wish to avoid is as inevitable as my sitting across from you even as you rise...
Paid articleThe Liturgical Drowse: The habits of faith
Griffiths, Paul J.
When I’m at Mass, I often find myself at the edge of sleep and occasionally right over it into a twentysecond burst of shallow, eye-closing, neck-relaxing sleep. This can happen during the...
Paid articleWhy I Became Catholic: And why Benedict worries me
Wilkins, John
Iam a child of Vatican II. Without it, I doubt I would be a Catholic today. Brought up as an Anglican, I would surely never have found my way into the church that in a special way stands in...
Paid articleThe Redeemed Life: Baptism in the early church
Madigan, Kevin
The ancient Christian church understood that for believers, resurrected life didn’t start after death; it had already begun. It was not something simply to be anticipated and looked forward...
Paid article'Great Art Survives': An interview with Dave Brubeck
Corbin, Ian Marcus
At the age of eighty-eight, Dave Brubeck is one of America’s most celebrated jazz performers and composers. Best known for the 1959 Dave Brubeck Quartet record Time Out, Brubeck has produced a...
Paid articleRevolutionary Road
Cooper, Rand Richards
The novelist Richard Yates, who died in 1992, was once called “a writer’s writer’s writer,” a witty epithet for a career spent at a maddening remove from the large public its owner craved....
Paid articleWhat Happened at Vatican II
Prusak, Bernard P.
October 28 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the election of Angelo Roncalli as Pope John XXIII. Less than three months later he announced his plan to convene a council. After three years...
Paid articleGoldengrove
Sayers, Valerie
On a placid New England lake, teenage sisters––“two Cleopatras in our royal barge”—go rowing. Margaret, who is seventeen, luxuriates in the sunny spring day, smoking though she already has a...
Paid articleThe Limits of Power
Sheehan, James J.
If it is true that, in the words of the military historian Correlli Barnett, “war is the great auditor of institutions,” then we Americans have more to worry about than our 401(k)s. The Iraq...
Paid articleThe Big squeeze
DeFina, Robert
If nothing else, our current economic crisis has exposed the financial system’s rotten core. The various claims of efficiency, dynamism, and innovation spouted by its most ardent boosters...
Paid articleNo One Sees God
Cunningham, Lawrence S.
Energized by the recent success of books by such vigorous atheists as Christopher Hitchins, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and Sam Harris, Michael Novak returns to a theme he first wrote...
Paid articleChagall
Rutherglen, Susannah
“If I were not a Jew...I wouldn’t have been an artist, or I would be a different artist altogether,” Russianborn painter Marc Chagall once declared. It was a paradoxical statement,...
Paid articleThe Perfect Sinner
Bordwell, Harold
In the 1940s, the small community of SaintBenoit-sur-Loire near Orleans had some thirteen hundred inhabitants. It was the site of a celebrated abbey church whose fortunes had changed with...
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