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September 11th, 2003
Visiting the 9/11 Memorial at Shanksville, PA
Shanksville, PA, Sept. 7, 2003—About ten miles off the Pennsylvania Turnpike (about 80 miles before you get to Pittsburgh), Shanksville is small town America incarnate. It must be the mostly unlikely place imaginable for the ...
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September 7th, 2003
The Unexpected Trail to Peace
I didn't know it would be Las Vegas—I didn't know at the time the capital of sin would give me back my sanity.
Code ex-boyfriend blueI guess I couldn't know ...
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September 3rd, 2003
I'm Staying in the Non-Profit World Because I Want To
It took me by surprise when my two very successful cousins, who both recently graduated from law school, said to me, "You're going to have to ...
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September 2nd, 2003
Nobody Drove Me to the Convent
"There I was, there I was, there I was… in the Congo ."
It was the first thing ...
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September 1st, 2003
A Journey to Italy, a Reminder of Catholic Roots
They say you can't go home again. In my case, its usually because someone has changed the locks on the door—so that I, literally, can't go ...
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August 30th, 2003
Art's power to transform reality
Art has the power to transform us into something better, something greater, so long as we don't merely place it on a pedestal. On my recent trip to Nicaragua, several images revealed the ...
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August 22nd, 2003
Finding Marguerite's Dream in the Red Rock Desert
Ash Wednesday, 1932
An art student stands on the avenue in New York City in 1932, looking up at the Empire State Building, recently completed.
Most people from around the ...
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August 3rd, 2003
Service Call on the Road of Faith
Somehow, getting a flat tire in a church parking lot seems wrong. After all, I could have used that hour to get a head start to the beach. Joined friends for ...
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August 1st, 2003
The Confessions of St. Augustine and My Journey to Faith
As for every young man brought up in an Irish household, for me watching Notre Dame football on Saturday afternoon is practically a religion.
But that Saturday, in ...
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July 29th, 2003
A Perspective on the Cost of Denying Women Ordination
Nearly six years to the day that I received my first theology degree, I was back in Boston at an ordination (see box below).
I was at the Episcopal cathedral, not the Catholic one. Jen, a ...
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July 29th, 2003
Christian Faith Comes Alive on Pilgrimage in El Salvador
Summertime…and the living is on the go. This summer I headed south to El Salvador in Central America.
It's a breathtakingly beautiful land country, but with a turbulent history that includes many modern-day Christian ...
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July 26th, 2003
Letting Summer, Fall, and Company Do Their Thing
A couple weeks ago, with Labor Day behind me and school back in session, I gave in to the temptation of calling it quits for the summer, and mentally fast forwarded to the bleakness that ...
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July 1st, 2003
Poster Boy for Appalling Prelates and…Man of Faith
"My deepest vocation," spiritual writer Henri Nouwen said, "is to be a witness to the glimpses of God I have been allowed to catch." Here's one:
I attended ...
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July 1st, 2003
The Magdalene Sisters and Catholic Guilt
Guilt and shame are two Irish-Catholic traits that are as typical as corned beef and cabbage on St Patrick's Day to Irish-Americans. It's one thing to be Catholic, but to be an ...
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June 1st, 2003
A Cardinal Complains, a Board Chair Resigns - What Does It All Mean?
JUNE 18, New York - This week the head of the U.S. Catholic Church's National Review Board, former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating, resigned suddenly from his post. The National Review Board is charged ...
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June 1st, 2003
A Little Bible Study Didn't Hurt
For years I've recited the same prayer, every morning as I drive to work and every evening before I go to bed: Lord, help me feel your presence and be nicer to people. But my ...
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May 14th, 2003
Leaving, Learning, Coming Back for More
I know that my mother suffered terribly from postpartum depression after giving birth to my brother Franz and me, yet she and my father weren't finished. One day, Franz and I were being good and ...
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May 12th, 2003
Before I came to live in Arica, Chile, spending a week in silence sounded ridiculous. I love constant motion; I enjoy bumping into people and I gather strength from personal interaction. ...
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May 3rd, 2003
Saved provides a smart critique of the evangelical teen subculture
I went to Saved , a new comedy about teenagers in a Christian high school expecting to get a few laughs at the expense of bible-based yokels. ...
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May 1st, 2003
Several years ago, after I made a pretty self-righteous remark at a church meeting, I was reproached as having "no right to be so flip for someone so young" (I was 24 at the time, ...
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