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Yearly Archives: 2005

John Paul II’s saints—and us

Why was Pope John Paul II the greatest saint-maker in the history of the Church? The question is actually a misnomer, although it’s been used...

An open letter to Howard Dean

Dear Dr. Dean: Congratulations on your election as chairman of the Democratic National Committee — for many years, the “natural” political home of Catholic Americans....

Liberating obedience

In the second act of Camelot, King Arthur’s bastard son Mordred, a poisonous weed in the garden of the Round Table, mocks “the seven...

The new Catholicism in the New South

Many Americans still think of their Catholic fellow-citizens as white urban ethnics making a hardscrabble living, raising large families, and cutting themselves into the...

Covering a sick pope

Shortly after Pope John Paul II came home from his first February hospitalization, my NBC colleague, Keith Miller, sent me an e-mail. A foreign...

Visiting the Seminaries

When the U.S. cardinals came to Rome to discuss the Long Lent of 2002 in April of that year, they recommended that a visitation...

The Pope and the President on freedom

Commentators have noted parallels between President Bush’s second inaugural address and President Kennedy’s 1961 inaugural; one witty historian suggested that it was “the best...

A knight passes

The ideal knight — courageous and honest, courteous and modest, loyal and pure of heart — isn’t easy to find in any age. Yet...

Creation groans

Prior to the devastating tsunami that wrought havoc across the Indian Ocean last December, many Christians probably thought that St. Paul was waxing metaphorical...

Christianity, by the numbers

For twenty years, David Barrett’s “Annual Statistical Table on Global Mission” (available in the quarterly International Bulletin of Missionary Research) has offered a numerical...
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