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October 2001

October 17, 2001
Time is passing, but that stack of newspapers in the corner is growing.Time is passing,...
October 10, 2001
When American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the Pentagon, a jet-fuel fireball claimed most of...
October 03, 2001
Surely it was the strangest question a journalist asked on the day the world changed.The...

September 2001

September 26, 2001
The first time Father John Romas approached ground zero it was hard to find the...
September 19, 2001
Terry Anderson thought he had conquered his anger at the terrorists who locked him away...
September 12, 2001
Just after dawn, Father Seamus Murtagh got up to write his Sunday meditation.The appointed text...
September 05, 2001
Things can get pretty tense when parents and teen-agers talk about premarital sex. No matter...

August 2001

August 29, 2001
The girls thought they were "hooking up" with some fraternity brothers. But the guys called...
August 22, 2001
Once there was a man who lived in a lighthouse on the foggy Atlantic. This...
August 15, 2001
After another day of watching Pope John Paul II shake Communist Poland, American political philosopher...
August 08, 2001
When a life-or-death crisis landed Paul Weyrich in the hospital, the conservative patriarch found himself...
August 01, 2001
In the beginning was Eru, the One, who also was called Iluvatar."And he made first...

July 2001

July 25, 2001
The aging patriarch's hands and voice shook, but his moral vision was solid as a...
July 18, 2001
Creekside Church visitor cards contain all the data slots and questions one would expect at...
July 11, 2001
Han Dongfang's passport says Hong Kong, but his voice says Beijing railway worker.When mainland listeners...
July 04, 2001
The salesman at the electronics superstore smiled broadly, but his eyes revealed that he thought...

June 2001

June 27, 2001
The Anglican Communion's civil war has flared up again, with more headlines about sex, sin...
June 20, 2001
As lunch ended in the ornate U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee conference room, Sen. Jesse...
June 13, 2001
As the boy grew to become a man, he explored the marble chambers that pump...
June 06, 2001
Every Sunday, countless Christians around the world recite an ancient prayer that begins: "I believe,...

May 2001

May 30, 2001
No one in the Episcopal Church hierarchy knows what will happen at Christ Church in...
May 23, 2001
Soon after the Episcopal Church voted to offer "pastoral care" for those in "life-long committed...
May 16, 2001
As every movie buff knows, condemned prisoners always get to say a few final words....
May 09, 2001
Few moments are as precious to mothers as the hushed rituals of bedtime. Kristin Madden's...
May 02, 2001
Dr. Warren Hern had "just finished performing an abortion for the last patient of the...

April 2001

April 25, 2001
When scribe Jonathan Tobin selected his all-Jewish baseball team, it was tempting to pencil in...
April 18, 2001
Anyone strolling through last year's National Funeral Directors Association convention could catch glimpses of Baby...
April 11, 2001
The weeks before Easter are rich with ancient images of suffering, sacrifice, death and hard...
April 04, 2001
It was a "slack day" in the confessional, with "only 88" parishioners receiving the sacrament...

March 2001

March 28, 2001
The clear plastic egg rack is empty right now and it mocks me whenever I...
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