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Megan McKenna is a storyteller Even when she interprets someone else rsquo s story she uses the medium of story to do so In On Your Mark she tells a story about a Gospel story about Jesus By employing the familiar summons to a race mdash ldquo On your mark Get set Go rdquo mdash she conveys

This volume is crammed with meticulously researched biblical historical theological and sociological information on order and ministry in the Catholic Church The author Kenan Osborne O F M is professor emeritus at the Franciscan School of Theology in Berkeley Calif and the author of severa

Shortly before her death in 1997 the renowned English-born American poet Denise Levertov published two volumes of selected poems The Stream and the Sapphire brought together 38 poems on Religious Themes from Levertov rsquo s large and varied corpus It traced in the poet rsquo s words my slow mo

When we participate in the Eucharist, we place ourselves in the history of God’s people.

In the world of the Bible sheep and shepherds were common sights so it was not unusual for ancient Near Eastern kings and rulers to adopt the image and title of shepherd That was natural and even irresistible since shepherds care for their flocks provide leadership and direction for them and pr

Children’s books: why would a senior citizen like me be reading them? And yet I recently read several at quite a clip. This is because a Xaverian brother named Leonard, who teaches reading at a Jesuit middle school near my parish, lent me half a dozen. Leonard often tells me about them during

Sudanese Smoke ScreenVictims in Darfur of rape, murder and the burning of villages by government-sanctioned janjaweed militia have yet to see perpetrators brought to justice. Nor is it likely that this will happen, given the Sudanese government’s reluctance to hold them accountable. A day afte