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I once heard Dorothy say, “When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.”
While Fr. Malone is away, Michael Rossmann, S.J., introduces readers to The Jesuit Post.
Today negotiators in Vienna announced a deal to limit Iran's nuclear program.
It is a Sunday morning in 1992, and I am 10 years old and visiting relatives in the midwest. We head to church, pile into a pew, sit, stand and then sing the entrance hymn at Mass. I happen to look up from my missalette just as two girls who are about my age walk up the aisle; they are wea
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