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: Religion & Spirituality
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December 24th, 2005
Reflections on St. Joseph from a soon-to-be adoptive father
As Christmas Day draws closer and crèche scenes start to pop up in New York City, I inevitably begin to think about the Holy Family. But this Christmas, as my ... |
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December 20th, 2005
Some thoughts on Christmas presence
HAVERTOWN, PA
December 1958
It’s helpful to have an older brother who’s taller than you. At the age of four Timmy is a year older and can reach things I can’t. One ... |
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November 15th, 2005
In Syracuse they gather every Wednesday to eat, drink and talk about God
To Blair Frodelius, it makes perfect sense to talk about God in a bar. After all, he says, Jesus turned water into wine. "There is something about sharing ... |
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November 9th, 2005
Can Intelligent Design and Evolution Ever Get Along?
This past summer, I moved to a college campus on the North Shore of Chicago. Thankfully, my dorm days are over, but via marriage to a professor, I have ... |
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November 1st, 2005
Everything (almost) you'll ever need to know about All Saints Day and All Souls Day
All Saints day began May 13 in the 7th century under the charge of Pope Boniface IV. Boniface consecrated the Pantheon in Rome to the Virgin Mary and ... |
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October 25th, 2005
Facts and fantasies about exorcism
With two major studio movies about exorcisms released in the past year (The Exorcist: The Beginning and The Exorcism of Emily Rose) and the re-release ... |
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October 14th, 2005
How I stopped dating and started living
Two years ago, at the age of thirty, I decided I was tired of waiting for the right guy to come along and made what some people think is a radical choice. Instead of getting ... |
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October 4th, 2005
Though its influence among Christians in the West may be waning, the sacred art of fasting is flourishing in the rest of the world.
This October all adult and physically capable Muslims abstain from food, water and sexual relations from dawn to sunset during the lunar month of Ramadan (October 5 to ... |
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September 27th, 2005
BustedHalo talks once again with "Fr. Gerard Thomas"
This past February BustedHalo published an extended interview with Fr. Gerard Thomas, a celibate, gay priest who--using an assumed name for fear of reprisal--spoke very candidly about the presence ... |
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September 21st, 2005
The poor serving the poor in Nicaragua
I set off on my recent mission trip to Nicaragua with every intention of spending a week in service to poor orphans and with the hope that ... |


