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The Catholic side of Irish soda bread (and the world's greatest recipe)
Kerry Weber
Cutting a cross into Irish soda bread dough before placing it in the oven serves both a scientific purpose and a spiritual one.
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Friendly Persuasion: Lessons on social change, from Newman to 'Juno'
Robert Barron

How does a culture change its mind? What makes an entire people repudiate a position once held with blithe certainty?

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What's Next?: Contemporary thinkers tackle life's big question
Robert E. Lauder

What one believes about God bears directly on what one believes about the future of the human person.

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Was Shakespeare Catholic, Protestant or an atheist?
Kathleen Doherty Fenty
From 2009: On William Shakespeare's birthday, Kathleen Doherty Fenty asks: Does it matter what his faith was?
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Searching for Christ in a comic book culture
Richard Leonard
It should not surprise us that the superhero genre has shaped our culture's understanding of Jesus.
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Accept the Absurd: Beckett and Kierkegaard, Godot and Christ
Robert E. Lauder
God, Samuel Beckett and the 'Theater of the Absurd'
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