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The Rev. James Martin, S.J., is a Jesuit priest, author, editor at large at America and founder of Outreach.
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A nbsp portentous question no nbsp Well that did not dissuade the editors of Patheos an online religion website from posing the question to nbsp a variety nbsp of Catholics nbsp Patheos describes itself as follows Patheos com is the premier online destination to engage in the global dialog
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They that go down to the sea in ships that do business in great waters These see the works of the LORD and his wonders in the deep Psalm 107 nbsp Reality television usually contains little that is real nbsp For some years ldquo The Real World rdquo the progenitor of many American
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Austen Ivereigh has already weighed in below on the new Vatican norms on sexual abuse pornography and the attempted ordination of women nbsp nbsp This morning in a nbsp media advisory announcing two press conferences the USCCB summed up the two features of the revisions nbsp bound to be th
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A powerful story from The Boston Globe today Tucked into the benches at the Parish of the Incarnation of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on the last Sunday in June was a letter written by the Rev James A Field Diagnosed two years earlier with pancreatic cancer he had news to share in Melrose t
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When my five-year-old nephew found out that there was to be a family wedding on July 9 of next year nbsp he admonished our family July 9 he nbsp said We can t go That s when Expectable Me opens nbsp Television had successfully drummed into his nbsp impressionable brain nbsp the opening
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Paul Locatelli SJ a nbsp terrific Jesuit a fine priest a superb administrator longtime president of Santa Clara University and a longtime friend to many editors here at America died today at age 71 after a short battle with pancreatic cancer nbsp Until recently he had been working in a high
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From CNS Revised Vatican norms to cover sex abuse attempted women s ordination Friday July 9 2010 By John Thavis Catholic News Service nbsp VATICAN CITY CNS -- The Vatican is preparing to update the 2001 norms that deal with priestly sex abuse of minors in effect codifying practices that ha
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I ve been thinking a lot about Bishop Kevin Dowling lately As you probably have seen nbsp in the past few posts Dowling an outspoken South African bishop gave a frank nbsp talk to a group of lay leaders in Cape Town in June Yesterday a friend sent me a link to his thoughtful address posted on