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In All Things
A recent dialogue between Bill Keller the executive editor for The New York Times and Scott Appleby history professor at the University of Notre Dame started out on the wrong foot Their exchange began with comments made by Appleby made during an interview for On Point a program aired on NPR st
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GetReligion has an interesting post on how the media handled one aspect of the abuse crisis engulfing the church nbsp nbsp The story and their analysis is complicated but worth reading nbsp Here we go For Catholics and non-Catholics alike it rsquo s difficult to read the stories attempting t
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One hundred years hence it is possible that the history books will note the on-going ups-and-downs of the clergy sex abuse crisis Perhaps the treaty the President nbsp signed this morning nbsp to reduce the number of nuclear weapons will be the first of many which will in one hundred years reac
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I ve blogged about this once before but just a reminder that we have set up a special page for teachers featuring selected articles on subjects such as sacraments and liturgy the saints and Catholics and politics We ve also just uploaded our monthly teacher newsletters to the page so you can no
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From the New York Times The board of St Vincent Catholic Medical Centers voted on Tuesday night to close its flagship hospital in Greenwich Village ending its long struggle to stay afloat despite millions of dollars of debt The exact timing for the closing of St Vincent rsquo s Hospital Manhatt
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My friend and colleague Austen Ivereigh has a post below about the revelations of corruption contained in a new investigative report by Jason Berry over at NCR I concur with everything that Ivereigh says except this It makes for shocking reading I was not shocked in the least Perhaps Austen ha
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The first of two parts of a new Jason Berry investigation into the way the Legionaries of Christ oiled the Roman Curia through money and gifts is posted at NCR It makes for shocking reading The Pope emerges unscathed indeed is singled out for refusing an envelope of cash And it was Benedict XVI
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My youngest of four daughters has moved out of the house She is now sharing an apartment with one of her sorority sisters only 50 miles from home She is halfway through her freshman year of college She is lovely witty compassionate intelligent thoughtful and completely ready to be out of th
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This week begins America s Easter break hiatus but we will still be posting new content online including this interview with Scott Korb author of Life in Year One What the World Was Like in First-Century Palestine What did people eat where did they work and worship and what was their relation
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One of the most surprising aspects of the reaction to the return of the clergy sex abuse scandal has been the way some commentators especially those on the Left have used the crisis to advance causes that do not actually have much to do with the underlying problems My colleague Father Martin has
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Andrew Hamilton S J offers an unflinching and intriguing take on the Catholic abuse crisis seen through the perspective of Easter this week in Eureka Street the Australian Jesuits online magazine The stories of sexual abuse throughout the Catholic world are not a distraction from Easter If w
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If you were a student in a first-year Communications class and you were asked to devise a strategy for taking a situation say a scandal involving the clerical abuse of minors and make the situation worse to devise ways to add fuel to the flames rather than to squelch them to present yourself as
Signs Of the Times
A study reports that Latinos who have left the church since 1990 have shifted toward secularism as they become more Americanized.
Letters
Worthy of Recognition Re “Historian’s Progress” (Current Comment, 3/29): I am a long-time reader and admirer of Tony Judt’s work. How wonderful of America to recognize his most recent work in The New York Review of Books. I do not know which is more worthwhile, his essay &ldq
Books
A towering history of moral theology from James F. Keenan, S.J.
Signs Of the Times
Vulnerable populations affected by wars and internal conflicts were among the major concerns highlighted in the report.
Art
James Tissot’s paintings of Jesus' life and death are signs of a vibrant Christian imagination.
Signs Of the Times
More than 26 groups say their calls for a new model of development in Haiti are being ignored.