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"John Paul II is blessed because of his faith—a strong, generous and apostolic faith," Pope Benedict said May 1 just minutes after formally beatifying his predecessor.

Politics & SocietyIn All Things
Vincent J. Miller
Michael Gerson has written a much-needed conservative Christian take-down of Ayn Rand up in his column for the Washington post nbsp Ayn Rand rsquo s adult-onset adolescence It rsquo s an appropriate topic during Holy Week nbsp Gerson outlines the conflict between Christianity and Rand rsquo s
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Matt Malone, S.J.

One of the amusing effects of this week's announcement that Britain's Prince William is going to marry his long-time girlfriend, Kate Middleton, is that every copy of the blue dress that Kate was wearing at their photo-op has disappeared. The shops here in London say that they sold out of the dresses within 24 hours of the latest event-of-the-century announcement. People understand why, of course, at least intuitively: everybody wants to be somebody and the somebody that everybody who's anybody wants to be this week is either partner in Britain's new royal couple.

Politics & SocietyIn All Things
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Perhaps more than other Christians who seem more open to floating freely among various denominations for worship and identity Catholics tend to view some other churches as monolithic institutions with clear doctrine and discipline guiding all members along a straight and narrow path But the cove
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James Martin, S.J.
The priest who was widely quoted here and here and here as nbsp stating that part of the reason nbsp for the 1870 excommunication of the soon-to-be-canonized Blessed Mary MacKillop was her participation in raising nbsp questions about nbsp a sexually abusive priest now says he was misquoted nbsp
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Kerry Weber
For anyone concerned that undocumented immigrants are taking jobs from American citizens the United Farm Workers has a response Come take them back nbsp The UFW has started a Web site called takeourjobs org nbsp A statement posted on the site s homepage clarifies the message There are two is