December 6, 2013

Domestic Affairs

Columnists

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'Not All Religious Learning Happens Explicitly'

The spirituality at the heart of each child cries out to be nourished; helping children develop their sense of wonder through play will go far in this regard.

By Eleanor Sauers

November 25, 2013

By Peter Leibold and Liz McCloskey

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'Be Who You Are and Be That Well'

Our backgrounds were different, but our Catholic identity ran deep, with Irish-Catholic roots spreading in almost every direction.

November 25, 2013

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'Learning Humility, Learning Patience'

Every poll shows the nonreligiously affiliated—now called “nones”—increasing in number. That number includes all my grown children. But it wasn’t always this way.

November 25, 2013

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Married Priests

Any discussion of the relationship between celibacy and priesthood needs to distinguish between three different “logics” that have governed the practice of celibacy.

By Richard R. Gaillardetz

November 25, 2013

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An Everyday Nightmare

In this film slavery creates a hell in which everyone burns—blacks and whites, men and women, victims and victimizers, the well-intentioned and the malevolent.

By Richard Alleva

November 25, 2013

Movies

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Rethinking Catholic Schools

At a time when most schools are serving larger geographic areas, it might be a good idea to take a look at how dioceses structure their educational systems.

By Fr. Nonomen

November 25, 2013

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Accidental Selections

The books I’m recommending here I more or less bumped into by accident, usually when some reviewer or author of a memoir took the trouble to cite something good.

By Thomas Powers

November 25, 2013

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The Pleasure of Reading, Rediscovered

One of the frustrations of academic research is that the distinction between reading for work and reading for leisure becomes blurred.

By Tina Beattie

November 25, 2013

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Earning Their Place

Tempted as I am to recommend those I give as presents year after year, I’ll offer instead some very recent books that have already earned a home on our bookshelf.

By Catherine Wolff

November 25, 2013

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Getting It Wrong to Get It Right

No one says growing up is easy, and four novels I’ve read this year reiterate just how challenging the journey from youth (or youthfulness) to maturity can be.

By Alyssa Rosenberg

November 25, 2013

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'Thoughts about Possible Thoughts'

Philosophical flights, lyrical poetry, and a graphic memoir of bipolar disorder are some of the reads topping my list.

By Sarah Rich

November 25, 2013

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If Not Fiction, Then Nonfiction

Year in and year out, there are nonfiction books set in the present in which the central questions of Christian belief are taken up dramatically.

By Paul Elie

November 25, 2013

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Poem | Raising the Eyes That High

Looking westward through the porch screen, / White light from the full moon shivers / On snow crust, on glaze over fields.

By Daniel James Sundahl

November 25, 2013

Poetry

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The Last Word: High-interest Loan

The Hildesheim Cathedral in Germany is undergoing major renovation and has sent some of its most beautiful medieval objects to New York.

By Leo J. O’Donovan

November 25, 2013

Arts

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Letters | Chatting with Francis, the church & the Jews

Spoofs, the importance of context, and "wild things."

By The Editors

November 25, 2013

Letters

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'The Habit of Gratitude and Hopefulness'

To put it in Vatican II terms, our vocation is to help our children discern their vocation.

By Christopher C. Roberts

November 20, 2013

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'Grace Helps Them Through'

We are that family, the one with the very young, very active children who decided to come to your quiet, even somnolent Mass. We did not sit in the crying room.

By Liam Callanan

November 20, 2013

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'Now and Then I Feel It's Working'

J. Peter Nixon in the first in our series: "I have tried to live my faith in a way that would make it attractive to my children. Now and then I feel it’s working."

November 19, 2013