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August 8th, 2006
Down by the River
Those of you who follow Catholic news might have heard about a ceremony last week in Pittsburgh. It took place in a boat, on a river… with tangerine trees ...
July 21st, 2006
The Bishop's Send-Off and the Return of the High Priest
It's become a defining trait of my journey that much of it is spent in the "bridge and tunnel" traffic of crossing parallel universes. As it keeps things fresh ...
July 10th, 2006
Baptizing my son was an awakening for me
My husband says being Catholic, for him, is like being gray-haired or left-handed. It's self-evident, fundamental to who he is, but not something he wants to display on a ...
June 23rd, 2006
My First Confession
As it's a good mantra of the Christian journey, here's to new beginnings. With its daily focus on the arcana of all things Vatican and what happens behind the sacristy doors, some of you who ...
June 20th, 2006
How living with a street gang led an agnostic anthropologist to faith
Thomas Ward agonized over a choice: should he cheat death by ditching his research or forge ahead and prepare to die? He decided to prepare to die. ...
June 15th, 2006
A sit down with the ultimate fan, God
In the beginning, was God. And sports was with God, and sports was God. Then, out of the muck and mire, God created man, and gave man authority to name all ...
June 6th, 2006
Just who is the mysterious scribe behind Whispers in the Loggia, the controversial blog that Catholic power brokers can't seem to get enough of?
He is a wiry bantam rooster of a man; a ball of nervous energy with brown hair and rectangular glasses sitting atop a Roman nose. From a row ...
May 22nd, 2006
Jewish-Christians at USC struggle with the effects of conversion to Christianity
David Allen's parents wanted him to see a psychiatrist. Why? Not because he was depressed, taking drugs or getting bad grades in college but because he wanted to convert to Christianity. Allen is one of several ...
May 14th, 2006
And an unexpected grace
Two years after my husband Greg and I were married, word came from his Aunt and Uncle in Florida that there was a problem with his grandmother. In one ...
May 9th, 2006
In the spirit of Judas, National Geographic announces plans for a two-hour special: Even More Gospels!
Through The Gospel of Judas, one of the greatest historical discoveries in the history of humankind, the world’s eyes were opened to a revolutionary view of the ...
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