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A lovely video on the March for Life with beautiful faces and a beautiful message nbsp The Sister of Life is especially eloquent nbsp

Over the last two years America s expanded Books amp Culture section has reviewed many of the season s critically lauded films including several of the nominees for Best Picture Here we provide links to these reviews by our team of critics nbsp See what our reviewers thought nbsp of this year

There are as many paths to God as there are individuals This series on Huffington Post looks at six of the most well-traveled paths for contemporary believers The first two parts considered nbsp The Path of Belief nbsp and nbsp The Path of Independence You might be surprised to hear of agnost

For anyone still having a hard time grasping the real-life effects of the economic downturn I can t imagine a better movie than The Company Men which I saw this weekend nbsp The film by ER s John Wells follows three men--well played by Ben Affleck Tommy Lee Jones and Chris Cooper--who lose

When the great writer Reynolds Price died a few days ago most obituaries omitted mention of his deep faith nbsp Yet much of his writing in later life focused on his Christian belief and practice nbsp For me his most affecting treatment of that topic is in nbsp Letter to a Godchild in which nbs

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One of the more underreported nbsp aspect of the introduction of the new Mass translations aka the new Roman Missal to be rolled out in Advent this year is the requirement for new musical settings for the various Mass parts nbsp I e new translations mean that some of those old familiar tu

An elderly Jesuit long experienced in interfaith dialogue once told me ruefully These days it s easier to talk nbsp with people of nbsp other faiths than it is to talk with other Christians nbsp Strangely some interpret the call to charity and civility in the nbsp Christian and Catholic nb

You ve probably read about Fr Alberto Cutie s new book Dilemma in which he recounts his leaving of the Catholic priesthood to marry and his subsequent joining of the Episcopal Church nbsp The Diane Rehm Show invited me on this morning to speak about celibacy along with Fr Cutie whose book is