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Arts & Culture Books
Mary MeehanOctober 17, 2005

Linda Greenhouse the Pulitzer Prize-winning Supreme Court reporter for The New York Times was off duty when in 1989 she joined a huge march supporting legal abortion in Washington D C This was shortly before the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a major abortion case and other journalists c

Arts & Culture Books
Julie TrocchloOctober 17, 2005

When I was in junior high I decided after reading every Cherry Ames book in the public library to become a nurse because nursing sounded interesting and fun I went to Georgetown University and discovered that nursing was professionally and intellectually challenging During my first job in a lar

Arts & Culture Books
James S. Torrens, S.J.October 17, 2005

Erin Noteboom born in Iowa is now a Canadian writer whose two recent books illustrate a classic division of poetry into the genres of narrative and lyric Seal up the Thunder derives its title from the Book of Revelation ldquo Seal up what the thunder has said and do not write it down rdquo 10

The Word
Dianne BergantOctober 17, 2005

Every once in a while the world of popular music brings forth a song that can captivate our minds with its beautiful simplicity and can lift our yearning souls heavenward Jacques Brel rsquo s ldquo If We Only Have Love rdquo is such a song The melody is easy enough to grasp after singing only a

Of Many Things
Drew ChristiansenOctober 17, 2005

The late Pope John Paul II frequently called for a “new evangelization,” by which he meant the renewed preaching of the Gospel in regions long assumed to be Christian, like Europe and the Americas. Pope Benedict XVI continues these efforts. On Sept. 29, presidents of the 34 European epis

Editorials
The EditorsOctober 17, 2005

Last month the nation observed for the first time Constitution Day. Some school administrators confessed that they were not aware of recent legislation that requires all public schools and colleges to sponsor an annual program on the Constitution on or around Sept. 17, the date in 1787 when the Cons

News

Monika Hellwig, Noted Theologian and Author, Dies After StrokeThe noted theologian and author Monika Hellwig died at Washington Hospital Center on Sept. 30 after suffering a severe stroke. She was 74 years old. She had recently retired as president and executive director of the Association of Cathol