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Michael V. Tueth
Dozens of well-known American and British actresses have portrayed religious women in film Some of them mdash Jennifer Jones in ldquo The Song of Bernadette rdquo and Susan Sarandon in ldquo Dead Man Walking rdquo mdash won Academy Awards for their performances There have been nuns who broke i
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Carolyn Osiek
Voltaire remarked that all Christology is somehow autobiographical Geza Vermes born into a Hungarian Jewish family converted to Christianity political refugee Catholic priest who later returned to the Judaism of his ancestors first professor of Jewish studies at Oxford died on May 8 2013 at
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Kevin M. Doyle
When speaking against the death penalty to secular audiences I try to work in a plug for the unborn So once as a guest lecturer at Princeton I lamented the passing of Paul Ramsey a Princeton ethicist who demanded that abortion at any gestational stage be distinguishable from infanticide I equa
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M. Cathleen Kaveny
Many people claim that baseball is the ldquo thinking person rsquo s sport rdquo but I now believe that claim rightly applies only to spectators After reading Daniel Callahan rsquo s most recent two books one a memoir and the other a collection of essays spanning almost three decades of his ca
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Dennis Vellucci
It is the 1941 baseball season and Joe DiMaggio is not content Fans idolize him He enjoys a record-breaking hitting streak His wife gives birth to a son Yet DiMaggio is moody and saturnine besieged by guilt that he is not the hero his fans expect him to be He consumes Superman comic books fr
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David J. O'Brien
Michael Novak’s autobiography is another remarkable American success story.