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September 11th, 2005
"Pay It Forward"
Kim Statkevicus had it all. A successful, loving husband, a great house in the suburbs, a 13 month old son and another child on the way—the picture ...
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August 23rd, 2005
My journey from atheism to belief
A few days before heading out of town, I called my parents in Vermont to tell them I would be away for the weekend. My Dad had a stroke ...
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August 1st, 2005
Alice von Hildebrand and an insightful brand of feminist spirituality
Before the Vagina Monologues even opened on my Catholic college campus last year, the campus had been buzzing with concern. Fordham University pulled funding because some of the ...
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August 1st, 2005
A Paulist Novice’s Excellent Adventure
Ever since I was young I wanted
to
be an actor. My love for movies has always been a big part of my life and the hundreds of DVDs and videos I've ...
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July 9th, 2005
An American walks the streets after the bombing
London July 8, 2005For the second time in four years a "terrorist" group has attacked civilians in my city. On September 11th I watched black clouds rising from lower ...
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June 8th, 2005
A Basic Guide to Catholic Dogma, Doctrine and Teaching
After the death of John Paul II and the election of Pope Benedict the XVI, print and broadcast media pundits regularly bandied about phrases like "defender of church doctrine" and "watchdog ...
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June 2nd, 2005
Moving beyond simplistic assumptions
First in a Three-Part Series
Last Wednesday, Paul Wolfowitz, a former Bush Administration official who was one of the chief architects of the Iraq war, assumed the Presidency of the World Bank. In his ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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April 3rd, 2005
Two perspectives on how to interpret young adults' commitment to Catholicism
More and more seek a robust orthodoxy
by Colleen Carroll Campbell
Conventional wisdom among America's chattering classes has long held that the Catholic ...
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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 ...
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February 18th, 2005
or Saint Jude, the sock drawer and me
When I was very young, I spied an advertisement in a magazine for a statue of Saint Jude. I can't begin to imagine which magazine this might have been, ...
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January 7th, 2005
A young adult perspective on cancer
Mary Donovan-Kansora was thirty-four years old when she was diagnosed with uterine cancer. Shortly before the chemotherapy treatments began, she approached a friend from her church and asked him to pray that she be completely ...
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January 4th, 2005
An anorexic/bulimic finds nourishment and healing in her faith
Having just binged and purged, Kelly Raths remembers "literally pulling my head out of a toilet so I could go do youth group and be this vivacious person that ...
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