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2009-12-04

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Article

Re-oriented

By Richard R. Gaillardetz

November 30, 2009

Pope Benedict XVI

Pope John Paul II

U.S. Catholicism

Article

Christmas Critics

By Thomas DePietro

November 30, 2009

Article

Building Characters

By Richard Alleva

November 30, 2009

Article

Maximus’s Mary

By Sally Cunneen

November 30, 2009

Article

The Public Option

November 30, 2009

Domestic Affairs

U.S. Catholicism

Article

Parish Councils

November 25, 2009

U.S. Catholicism

Article

The End of Homelessness?

By Melinda Henneberger

November 25, 2009

Domestic Affairs

Article

85th Anniversary Party

November 25, 2009

U.S. Catholicism

Article

Terrorists on Trial

November 24, 2009

Foreign Affairs

Article

The independent Catholic press, health-care reform

November 24, 2009

U.S. Catholicism

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Religion

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Culture

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Books

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