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From Death to Life
Science teaches that the cosmological line between death and life is tenuous and fragile: Were the earth to wander beyond her normal orbit, her florid and rich life would...
Seeing the Whole in the Part
The subtlety of the Second Vatican Council’s statement in Nostra Aetate that the “Catholic Church rejects nothing of what is true and holy in [other] religions” has often been...
What’s Wrong With Dies Irae?
November 2, All Souls Day, is the one of last liturgical remnants of the doctrine of Purgatory and the need to pray for the souls therein. Since the Second...
Receiving a Pope and a President
Within only a few hours on September 22, Pope Benedict XVI and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave major addresses in front of two bodies, the German Bundestag and the...
