October 6, 2008

Richard P. McBrien's 'The Church,' reviewed

The Crusades are typically thought of as the wars between Christians and Muslims in the Middle East that occurred during the 12th and 13th centuries While this was their most famous manifestation it was not the only one They also involved conflicts against the Moors in Iberia heretics in souther

Mary Oliver rsquo s newest book The Truro Bear and Other Adventures Poems and Essays will certainly please connoisseurs of her work and will likely win her new readers as well The 35 poems and prose sketches in the collection that have been previously published present themselves as familiar fri

A study in tolerance, reviewed

Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), Oct. 12, 2008

'The meltdown of venerable investment houses might have been anticipated.'

Mary's Smile, Relics Secular and Sacred