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November 14th, 2006
Making the case for my sainthood with High School English students
"You can't be a saint," one of my students told me, matter-of-factly.
I was a bit troubled by this, as I had just told my class at an all-girls Catholic ...
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November 13th, 2006
Sacha Baron Cohen's hilarious new film cuts uncomfortably close to the bone
As the many diehard fans of British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen had hoped, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan includes sixty minutes of ...
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November 9th, 2006
Catholic NO-It-Alls
I don't often show it, but I'm a bit of a political animal.
In college, I majored in political science with a primary concentration in American politics alongside an independent ...
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November 8th, 2006
Pure Sex, Pure Love
I've been really busy recently. I've been dashing into church 10 minutes late because I had to send "just one more email." During Mass, I've been thinking about work rather than paying attention to the ...
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November 1st, 2006
On All Saints Day, prayers for every need, including scarce parking spaces, lost iPods and hard-to-find husbands
Complete this sentence:
"St. Anthony, St. Anthony..."
Don't know it?
Then you're not a real Catholic. At least not yet.
The one thing that connects ...
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October 30th, 2006
This Halloween Modern Satanists are just asking for a little understanding
Syn Holliday is a family man with three young children, a loving wife and a suburban home next door to a devout Mormon family his children regularly play ...
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October 26th, 2006
A Catholic Ride Through America's Evangelical Landscape: by Peter Feuerherd
Visit Jerusalem in Orlando! Journey into the Sinai Wilderness! Expect to be inspired! These are some of the many exclamations splashed across the Web site for The Holy ...
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October 19th, 2006
Some of the Church's very best people did some very bad things. A conversation with author Thomas J. Craughwell.
Many Christians are familiar with the virtues of St. Mary of Egypt, who lived in the desert as a hermit for 47 years, devoting herself to God in ...
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October 13th, 2006
The Punk Priest
At first, clicking onto Fr. Bob Lubic's website seems like a relatively conventional Catholic experience in the internet age. The sublime sound of Gregorian chant wafts from ...
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October 4th, 2006
The feast of St. Francis and the blessing of the animals
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Americans love their pets. More than 63 million households have one and the numbers are on the rise. We take our animal companions on walks, to the beach ...
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