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April 8-15, 2013

Vol. 208 / No. 12

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Books
Laura M. ChmielewskiMarch 27, 2013

From 1850 until 1920, Catholic nuns were virtually everywhere on the North American continent.

Books
Jon M. SweeneyMarch 27, 2013

“Nobody ever wrote a more unaffectedly elegant English,” a critic once wrote of Evelyn Waugh.

Film
Robert E. LauderMarch 27, 2013

Terrence Malick's 'To the Wonder' is a demanding but ultimately richly rewarding film.

Poetry
Chris AndersonMarch 27, 2013

The old woman in ICU wants to rail against the Church.Patriarchy, she says, hierarchy, and I agree.She looks just like my mother.But you’re dying, I say.Why are we talking about this?Why does any of this matter?And the sun slants through the dusty window.My Roman collar chafes.On the monitor,

The Word
John W. MartensMarch 27, 2013

It took the apostles some time to come to terms with the reality of Jesus raised from the dead but once they accepted it they had to face the challenges of day-to-day life in the context of their newly aroused faith It was this tension between the mundane reality of ordinary life and the glorious

The Word
John W. MartensMarch 27, 2013

It is easy to forget how few Christians there were when the church began Acts 1 15 says there were 120 people gathered together after Pentecost Acts also narrates the mass conversions of many people sometimes in the thousands but Robert M Grant said that ldquo one must always remember that fig

Columns
Maurice Timothy ReidyMarch 27, 2013

It is the dream of not a few artists to influence the public’s perception of current events.