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author archive
James Martin, SJ :
15 article(s)
James Martin is a Jesuit priest and the author of My Life with the Saints.
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November 4th, 2009
Editor's Note: For an answer this week, BustedHalo® turns to America Magazine and Fr. James Martin for his take on Anglicans and Catholics: ...
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October 28th, 2009
What does All Saints Day have to do with Halloween?
Father James Martin, SJ, author of My Life with the Saints, talks about the connection between Halloween (October 31) and All Saints Day (November 1). As part of ...
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August 8th, 2009
They might not have been the ones carrying Jesus to full term but Catholic belief is that Joachim and Anne--the traditional names given to Mary's parents--were holy people in their right. (They are, by the way, the patron ...
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March 12th, 2009
A mixed-media guide to the afterlife
"None of us are perfect but all of us are on a journey toward God" is one of the ways we use to explain what the name Busted Halo® means. Given our name it is ...
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February 11th, 2009
...on the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes
On February 11, 1858, Saint Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes ( January 7, 1844 - April 16, 1879) was gathering firewood when she had a vision of the Virgin Mary in a grotto near town. This ...
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December 29th, 2008
(1918-2008)
Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ, who died at 90 on December 12, was the scion of a legendary family (his father, John Foster Dulles, was Secretary ...
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December 12th, 2008
Before "Doubt" the Oscar winner found the spirit on stage in an "unwieldy" Jesus
With the much-anticipated release of Doubt, Philip Seymour Hoffman is once again receiving the kind of critical kudos reserved for actors who are generally tagged ...
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December 10th, 2008
Forty years after his death, Thomas Merton still causes controversy
Forty years ago today, Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk and perhaps the most popular American Catholic writer in history, stepped out of a bathroom shower ...
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September 11th, 2008
Wacky women or the first feminists? Three books to help you decide for yourself.
At the end of August, an Italian priest was forced to scuttle his plans for an online beauty pageant for nuns, because it had been, ...
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August 27th, 2008
Three suggestions for when you get back from the beach
Uh oh. Summer’s almost over and you haven’t finished Thomas Merton’s Seven Storey Mountain like you said were going to? Haven’t gotten around ...
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