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Can You Spare Some Change?

September 3, 2006

In the Bible, the book of Micah has a line that in some ways summarizes how we are to live. “You have been told … what is good, and what the LORD requires of you: Only to do the right and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8). This is [...]

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Actor Catherine Keener on Being Raised Catholic

September 1, 2006

In the article “Being Catherine Keener” (August 27, 2006), New York Times writer Lynn Hirschberg interviews actor Catherine Keener, who played Harper Lee in Capote and co-starred in The 40-Year-Old-Virgin. When asked about how Keener gets so many diverse roles, especially for being an actress over 35, Keener responded: Well, for one thing, I like [...]

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Neurotheology and Nuns

August 30, 2006

The UK newspaper Telegraph published an article today called “Nuns prove God is not figment of the mind” (08/30/06). Scientists have been in the pursuit of the brain processes underlying the Unio Mystica – the Christian notion of mystical union with God – and this endeavour is now part of a newly-emerging field called “neurotheology”. [...]

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Cloistered Nuns in Hollywood

August 29, 2006

The New York Times recently published an article on a cloistered group of Dominican nuns who live just a couple blocks from all the action in Hollywood. The title of the article — “For 56 Years, Battling Evils of Hollywood With Prayer” (Aug. 28, 2006) — highlights (with some drama) the nuns’s ministry of prayer. [...]

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Decide Today Whom You Will Serve

August 27, 2006

The Scripture readings at Mass really struck me today. The first reading hit me so soundly that I don’t really remember the rest of the Mass. It was from the book of Joshua in the Old Testament. Joshua 24 stands as an epilogue of sorts to the first six books of the Bible. In this [...]

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On Reading the Book “Double Crossed”

August 24, 2006

I’ve finally begun reading Kenneth Briggs’s Double Crossed: Uncovering the Catholic Church’s Betrayal of American Nuns. Doubleday, the publisher, has not made it easy to want to pick up this book and read it. The title of the book is a bit too sensational for my tastes, and the cover art of a nun in [...]

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