Voices
Kerry Weber is an executive editor for America.
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This week we have a video report on the short-term and long-term efforts to restore church artifacts and salvage church records in the Archdiocese of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina Archivists from around the country pitched in to save and catalogue items Watch the video below to learn more
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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
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In their new book ldquo The Grand Design rdquo Stephen Hawking and co-author Leonard Mlodinow provide a theory that attempts to answer the question ldquo How did the universe begin rdquo The answer Well it rsquo s definitely not God In ldquo A Brief History of Time rdquo Hawking allowed
The subject line of the e-mail read: “Ten reasons Muslims can’t be Americans.” The young Christian woman, who had received the chain message from a fellow member of a church committee, knew the content of the e-mail was full of lies. She chose to respond—kindly, respectfully—with the truth. As she typed her reply she drew on her experience working at the Interfaith Youth Core. As an intern with the organization she collaborated with Muslims on a daily basis, befriended Muslims, and participated in dialogue and service with them. She clicked “send” and hoped for the best.
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Earlier this summer I spoke with Eboo Patel co-founder of the Interfaith Youth Core nbsp about the importance of interfaith dialogue at Catholic universities The Core works to provide the tools and support college students need to become leaders in this dialogue and to work together to build conn
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The students enrolled in the Project Management class at the University of Notre Dame are carrying one less heavy book this semester They ll still have to read the usual textbook Project Management in Practice but only after the electronic version has been downloaded to their new iPads The unive
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An interesting article from CNS highlights the similarities between the backlash against the building of Park 51 and the prejudice of 19th-century Nativists The controversy over plans to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque a couple of blocks away from ground zero in New York is but the late
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It s nearly impossible to argue that the Benedictine monks of St Joseph Abbey in Louisiana should not be allowed to sell their simple handmade wooden caskets Unless of course you re a funeral director concerned about your own profits According to CNS Louisiana law allows only licensed funera
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The neighborhood surrounding the Nativity Mission Center a Jesuit-run middle school on Manhattan s Lower East Side has undergone significant changes over the past few decades Increasing gentrification has resulted in positive changes like fewer worries about prostitutes or neighborhood drug deal