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June 11th, 2007
It is now graduation season with many students going through a major life transition. How do you handle life's major transitions?
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June 6th, 2007
Why it would be a sin not to include dinosaurs in illustrated children’s Bibles.
The other night I was reading Zondervan’s Beginner's Bible: Timeless Children's Stories to my four-year-old twins when I came to a disturbing realization. Though the children’s Bible includes hundreds of illustrations ...
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May 30th, 2007
A funny thing happened in the middle of making a living
There's an old Yiddish saying: "If you want to hear God laugh, just tell Him your plans."
As far as my own life's concerned, these days, ...
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May 18th, 2007
A death in the family
Amid news of the Rev. Jerry Falwell's death earlier this week, the coverage was predictable. Conservatives who benefited from the pioneering televangelist's forays into politics praised his stances and ...
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May 16th, 2007
Reflections from a former fundamentalist
The Rev. Jerry Falwell—founder of the Moral Majority and the leader of the religious right in the '80s—died Tuesday after he was discovered unconscious in his office. We ...
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May 15th, 2007
A review of One Perfect Day:
The Selling of the American Wedding
Planning an expensive and elaborate wedding has become part of the modern quest for happiness, and an ever-growing battalion of wedding professions is to blame for our misguided ...
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May 9th, 2007
You can't spell love without evolve
For most of my adult life, I was what you might call, a casual evolutionist. You know, the type of person who could handle your run-of-the-mill, cocktail-party ...
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May 7th, 2007
Do you lie about what you do on a first date?
Nina, a 27-year-old anesthesiology resident in New York City, met a man at a bar recently. After some flirtatious small-talk, he asked her what she did for work. ...
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May 4th, 2007
Spider-Man 3 spins out of control
Until the advent of serviceable computer-generated imagery, fans of the Spider-Man comics were spared the disappointment of seeing their beloved hero bastardized on film. But that didn’t stop them from wanting ...
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May 3rd, 2007
What keeps you in the Catholic Church? Why do you stay?
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April 26th, 2007
Seeing Planet Earth for the first time
The ocean was placid and calm as a group of ten of us held our breath for what was about to come. Suddenly, with awe-inspiring grace and fury, the surface ...
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April 20th, 2007
The Sopranos, it's All in the "Family"
Earlier this week, the Paulist Fathers —you know, the people who run this fine website—were the beneficiaries one of the more unusual product placements in recent memory when ...
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April 18th, 2007
our readers and listeners respond
When faced with a horrible tragedy like the one that occured at Virginia Tech, we are immediately tempted to want to analyze and search for answers ...
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April 16th, 2007
A short course in Grey’s Anatomy
What is it about Grey's Anatomy that transformed it from a sleeper, mid-season replacement show into a primetime phenomenon? Of course some will point to the well-written scripts or ...
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April 12th, 2007
Some highlights from the first 99 episodes
Fr. Dave Dwyer and Mike Hayes' entrance into the world of podcasting in December 2005 marked a new chapter in the Paulist Fathers' great tradition of preaching "old ...
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April 11th, 2007
A former staff member wonders if the joke's on us
The door to WFAN's studio opened wide catching my eye and as I looked up I was greeted with the words "What the f*** are you looking at?" from ...
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April 4th, 2007
Holy Week in Haiti
So look, if the divine made flesh really did roll into town to adulating crowds only to be betrayed, tortured, killed and then, holy god, rise from the ...
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March 30th, 2007
Beyond words and Into Great Silence
At the beginning of March, Philip Groning's film Into Great Silence—a two-hour and forty-minute meditation on life in the Grande Chartreuse Carthusian monastery in southeastern France—opened ...
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March 28th, 2007
Who is one person that you find most inspiring in your life and why?
Compiled by Marc Adams reporting from the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress.
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March 23rd, 2007
Catholics in the Blogosphere
filmed and edited by Kevin Martz for Food4Thought.tv
As part of their Catholic Intellectual Series, Saint Joseph's University's Office of Mission & Identity organized a panel discussion entitled ...
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