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Your Cheap Clothing Has a High Price

by Karl D. Stephan May 15, 2013

When the Rana Plaza garment factory building collapsed on April 24, crushing hundreds of workers under a pile of concrete and machinery that used to be an eight-story factory building, it was like lifting a rock in your garden and…

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Relevant Rock: The Inadvertent Catholicism of Jim James

by Dan Hart May 15, 2013

In a February Rolling Stone interview, Jim James, the lead singer and songwriter of the popular roots rock band My Morning Jacket, had this to say when asked if he was religious: “I call myself a recovering Catholic.”
It’s funny,…

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Dropping the Benghazi Ball

by Dr. Earl Tilford May 14, 2013

In the 1990s, the U.S. Air Force’s self-descriptor for its capabilities was “Global Reach, Global Power.”  On September 11, 2012, as Americans were being attacked and killed in the Middle East, the global reach of air power was confined to…

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Same Sex Parenting: What Do the Children Say?

by Robert Oscar Lopez May 13, 2013

During the oral arguments about Proposition 8, Justice Anthony Kennedy referred to children being raised by same-sex couples. Since I was one of those children—from ages 2-19, I was raised by a lesbian mother with the help of her partner—I…

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Interview with an Ex-Catholic Baptist Pastor

by Matt Fradd May 13, 2013

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Several months ago I was on my way to Chicago to deliver a talk. During the flight I had the opportunity to share the gospel with a man sitting beside me.
After the flight, at baggage claim, a man named…

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Scripture Speaks: The Ascension of Our Lord

by Gayle Somers May 9, 2013

On Ascension Day, Jesus gives His apostles, a group of men singularly lacking in influence, a worldwide mission.  How would they be able to pull this off?
Gospel (Read Lk 24:46-53)
St. Luke tells us that as Jesus prepares to…

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On Motherhood: A Shadow of My Former Self

by Kate Wicker May 9, 2013

I’m very grateful I have the opportunity to be at home with my children, and usually I feel fairly satisfied with my station in life even if it sometimes feels like my days revolve around my kids’ bowel movements and…

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War of the Words: Who Do We ‘Worship’?

by Stephen Beale May 8, 2013

The history of the Church has, in some sense, been shaped by wars over words.
When we speak of God who is one being yet has three persons, of Christ who has the same substance as the Father and the…

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The Bishop of Rome as Christian Radical

by George Weigel May 8, 2013

It was a brief greeting to former colleagues. But if you read Pope Francis’ April 18 letter to the Argentine bishops’ conference closely, you get a glimpse of the man, his convictions and his vision.
First, the man: Jorge Mario…

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Mary’s Month

by Archbishop Jose H. Gomez May 7, 2013

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May is Mary’s Month.
This has been a custom in the Church dating back many centuries. And it is beautiful to associate Mary with the coming of Spring and the new birth of flowers and plants and crops in…

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