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Dan Berrigan the peace activist and poet together with members of his Jesuit community in Lower Manhattan spent a week of prayer and reflection over Labor Day at the Kirkridge Retreat Center in Pennsylvania Kirkridge has long been a friend to those who strive for peace and has hosted over the y

About a week ago comedian Louis C K presented an episode of his FX show Louie entitled God It was a 22 minute riff on faith Abraham and Isaac the crucifixion and saying Jesus Christ as a curse Incredibly bawdy at some moments it s nevertheless extremely thought-provoking Louis C

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Cardinal Cardinal Theodore E McCarrick Archbishop Emeritus of Washington recently traveled to the Middle East and spoke with Iraqi refugees there In a powerful piece in the The New York Review Of Books he described his experience The humanitarian consequences of this seven-year war on Iraqi civ