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December 24, 2007

Vol. 197 / No. 21

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Faith in Focus
Stephen MartinDecember 24, 2007

As I laid my cellphone on a bookshelf near the door and stepped outside into the late winter afternoon, I remember thinking, What can happen in just 30 minutes? True, my wife’s due date for our first child was just a few weeks away. It’s also true this fact made me quiver on occasion li

Faith in Focus
Karen Sue SmithDecember 24, 2007

The social worker and I belonged to the same parish, but we were merely acquaintances. So I was surprised when she called to ask whether anyone at our farm might be willing to take in a mother who had given birth during the night. There were perhaps 50 committed adults living at Koinonia Partners In

Faith in Focus
James Martin, S.J.December 24, 2007

How overwhelming the first Christmas must have been for Mary and Joseph.

Faith in Focus
James S. Torrens, S.J.December 24, 2007

The Foley Poetry contest approaches, with entries accepted between Jan. 1 and March 31. I know how the outpouring of poems will eventually seem like what Robert Frost describes in After Apple Pickingthe rumbling sound of load on load of apples coming in. (The picker admits he is overtired of the

Books
Robert A. KriegDecember 24, 2007

Over the past five decades liberation theologians have stressed the notion of Christian practice or praxis Greek for doing that is the notion that being a disciple of Jesus Christ requires action that is congruent with the Gospel discloses its truth and transforms society According to Gustavo

Books
John F.KavanaughDecember 24, 2007

In Lost in the Cosmos Walker Percy recounts an incident when the great neuroscientist Sir John Eccles was greeted by boos and hisses at a Harvard lecture Eccles had committed the unpardonable sin of claiming that human self-consciousness was not reducible to the biochemistry of the brain The host

Books
Ann RodgersDecember 24, 2007

Lourdes at 150: a pilgrims' guide, reviewed