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May 2010

May 31, 2010
When describing the mysterious concept called purgatory, the Catechism of the Catholic Church starts with...
May 24, 2010
It's getting harder to visit office water coolers without hearing the whispers of the "Lost"...
May 17, 2010
As strange as it may sound, the head of Focus on the Family is trying...
May 10, 2010
On Sunday mornings, you will find him leading hymns in one of the independent Church...
May 03, 2010
Both men faced rows of loved ones still wrapped in grief after shocking tragedies. Both...

April 2010

April 26, 2010
For journalists who care about life on the Godbeat, the list of the dead and...
April 19, 2010
This was not your typical New York Times headline: "For Catholics, a Door to Absolution...
April 12, 2010
Hollywood bean counters have started calling them "God films." The typical faith-based indie has a...
April 05, 2010
Motorists across America saw a strange sight this past Sunday morning if they stopped at...

March 2010

March 29, 2010
When Peter Hitchens was eight years old, and his older brother Christopher was 11, their...
March 22, 2010
In the beginning, there was candidate John F. Kennedy, who told an assembly of Protestant...
March 15, 2010
It was a decade ago during Lent that author Lauren Winner was visited by an...
March 08, 2010
In one of Hinduism's most sacred poems, the lord and sustainer of the universe chooses...
March 01, 2010
In one of the defining works of his historic papacy, Pope John Paul II argued...

February 2010

February 22, 2010
Elmer Towns had a big problem three decades ago after he moved to Lynchburg, Va.,...
February 15, 2010
The way President Barack Obama sees things, Americans should be able to find unity in...
February 08, 2010
Here's a rather predictable news flash: American mothers want the fathers of their children to...
February 01, 2010
When Eunice Kennedy Shriver died, Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley candidly reminded his Archdiocese of Boston...

January 2010

January 25, 2010
The first time Denzel Washington read the "Training Day" script, he had an intensely personal...
January 18, 2010
There she goes again. According to a top strategist in the presidential campaign of Sen....
January 11, 2010
Journalists at the Newhouse News Service bureau in Washington, D.C., learned to appreciate the sound...
January 04, 2010
President Barack Obama deserved the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, said the Norwegian Nobel Committee, because...

December 2009

December 28, 2009
As the Christmas pageant dress rehearsal rolled to its bold finale, reporter Hank Stuever found...
December 21, 2009
The Rev. Timothy Paul Jones kept hearing one thing when -- four weeks before Christmas...
December 14, 2009
Any jazz fan who has been paying attention at all during the past half century...
December 07, 2009
There is nothing new about Christians deciding that, when political push comes to legal shove,...

November 2009

November 30, 2009
In the beginning there was "Big Tony" Henderson, whose dying mother urged him to pull...
November 23, 2009
The Sunday service had just ended and the Rev. Larry Kroon couldn't believe what he...
November 16, 2009
If members of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod have heard it once, they've heard their national...
November 09, 2009
Maureen Dowd of the New York Times has long enjoyed flaunting her Catholic schoolgirl pedigree...
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