| June 1st, 2005 The garden isn't the only area of my life that needs constant attention A little over a year and a half ago my husband and I moved into our first house. As I walked around the wintry backyard, with its tired shrubs and empty flowerbeds, I planned ... |
| May 17th, 2005 Finding God through rewinding For years my mother has been dealing with a host of medical problems. Since I was 9 years old, I can't remember a time when she wasn't sick. Often I've sat by her ... |
| May 13th, 2005 The Vatican vs. Fr. Reese and The Questioning Jesuits Peter said to Him, "Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water." And He said, "Come!" And Peter got out of the boat, ... |
| May 10th, 2005 Fact, fiction and fantasy regarding Mary Magdalene The Da Vinci Code purports to tell us a lot of things about various subjects: Renaissance art, the ministry of Jesus, the Emperor Constantine and geography of Paris, among ... |
| May 3rd, 2005 Epiphanies in an Auto Repair Shop An auto repair shop is an unlikely place to have a profound moment, yet I've had two. And with the same person. Is God trying to tell me something? The first time was because of ... |
| April 27th, 2005 Reconstruction and Debt in Iraq The following is a reflection written by Sheila Provencher, 32, who lives and works in Baghdad, Iraq, with Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT). CPT is an ecumenical organization that ... |
| April 19th, 2005 Coming to terms with Benedict's papacy As the Papal conclave closed, fear crept into my heart. "Anybody but Ratzinger," I prayed. Moments before the announcement of who was to succeed Pope John Paul II I ... |
| April 3rd, 2005 Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code receives a cold cut What fascinated me about the hugely popular novel The Da Vinci Code was not whether Dan Brown's gargantuan best-seller had a shred of truth in it but rather that ... |
| April 3rd, 2005 Two perspectives on how to interpret young adults' commitment to Catholicism More and more seek a robust orthodoxy by Colleen Carroll CampbellConventional wisdom among America's chattering classes has long held that the Catholic ... |
| March 24th, 2005 Journeying to the third world to meet my sponsored child. "Noticeably fuller, sexier lips in 90 seconds," read the subject line of the spam email. Interesting news, but not something I could focus on. I was leaving the next ... |
