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Columns/The Catholic Difference
I’ve yet to see anyone reading with a “Kindle” or an I-Pod at the beach, so there may be hope for civilization yet. Summer is meant for real reading. Happily, there’s no lack of informative and amusing new stuff this year. In a tempestuous...
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Columns/Teachable Moments
As August comes and the coming of another school year looms, I find myself stressing a theme about which I am very concerned. Every year billions of dollars are expended in this country on education. Massive plants and regional facilities have been...
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Columns/Growing in Faith
Joseph Ratzinger and his brother Georg were ordained to the priesthood by Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber on the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, 1951. After living out his vocation for more than half a century, the current pontiff has come to develop...
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Columns/Growing in Faith
Benedict’s recent visit to Australia for World Youth Day provided an opportunity for the pope to reach out to the young men and women who represent the future generations of Catholicism. The entire event struck me as a particularly powerful and...
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Columns/On Behalf of Justice
Did you believe the highest government officials when they told us Saddam had weapons of mass destruction even though the U.N. inspection team in Iraq at the time could not find them? Did you believe them when they said Saddam and Osama were...
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Columns/That All May Be One
As we begin to celebrate the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of the Great St. Paul, Christians throughout the world consider the ecumenical implications of the Pauline year. Pope Benedict XVI declared June 2008-June 2009, the year of St. Paul at a...
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Columns/Spiritual Life
To try to serve others is to be caught up in many tensions, some that beset from without and others that beset from within. How can we remain energized, effective, and true? Here are some guidelines for the long haul:
Be beyond ideology, be...
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Columns/Growing in Faith
Through the years Benedict has offered a number of reflections on the relationship between scholarly, interpretive reading of the Bible, technically called exegesis, and theology. Much of his writing on the topic centers on what has come to be...
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Columns/The Catholic Difference
The death of Cardinal Bernardin Gantin of Benin this pas tMay 13 marked the passing of one of world Catholicism’s noble men. Born in what was then the French colony of Dahomey in 1922, a mere forty years after the first Catholic missionaries had...
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Columns/Teachable Moments
I remember once nearly breaking my hand reacting to a young boy’s change of attitude. To me, there’s nothing more frustrating than watching a person, with so much to offer and so much to live for, become embedded in self-pity and reactive...
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