By watching and listening and, most of all, by writing, Andre Dubus continues to celebrate the human spirit in which it is possible to see the power of God and God's grace at work.
From the archives: Knowing what nuclear weapons can do, and knowing we'll probably never be rid of them, it's clear why military men tell themselves, and everybody else, the bombs will never be used.
"I have wanted to create for myself a devotion to Mary that honors her as woman, as mother, that rejects the wickedness of sexual hatred and sexual fear."
The Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees, who would rather risk the South China Sea in small fishing craft than stay where they are, deserve better from the United States.
Black Catholics are reaffirming their bonds with other Blacks, while embracing their identity as Catholics— and hopeful agents of racial progress within the Church.
Ignoring many 'demonstrably unproven' statements in Susan Brownmiller's 'Against Our Will,' reviewers are undercutting the very values the book is obviously meant to serve—and in so many ways does.
We live in a world and in a Church that are changing at a mad pace—indeed, in the next decade both the United States and American Catholicism may face the greatest challenges either has ever seen.
