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What if the Pope had come and gone by submarine? 5/3/08
   
Musings on the Pope’s visit 4/26/08
   
About Pope Benedict XVI’s visit: Can we talk? 4/19/08
   
Papal Visit: Party? Wake? Both? 4/12/08
   
“Elephants in the Living Room” 4/5/08
   
“Wisdom for My Children” 3/29/08
   
Our choice: Emmaus or the Cabaret? 3/22/08
   
This Week Called Holy (...revisted) 3/14/08
   
“I came to be inspired.” 3/8/08
   
For the Likes of Me 2/29/08
   
Francis Thompson, hounded by The Hound of Heaven 2/22/08
   
Oblate Ronald Rolheiser: Shepherd for our time 2/15/08
   
Scandal in perpetuity: Cardinal George’s presidency of NCCB, with Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson as vice president 2/9/08
   
Revisiting: On Christians' patched tunics 2/2/08
   
Against abortions? Ordain women. 1/26/08
   
A reader speaks from Down Under 1/19/08
   
Paul, a man for service, a heart for love 1/12/08
   
Would Pope Benedict XVI Risk a Schism for an Exclusive Priesthood? 1/5/08
   
Paul, Persecutor and Lover of Jesus Christ 12/29/07
   
Beggars all are we at Bethlehem 12/22/07
   
Bethlehem: The First Christian University 12/15/07
   
Mary, Mother of God, and our Teacher 12/7/07
   
Toxic toys from China; toxic fear in U.S. 12/1/07
   
Norman Rockwell, for Yesterday and Today 11/24/07
   
Thanksgiving Day at two altars 11/17/07
   
Folding chairs on desert sand (revisting the article) 11/10/07
   
Scandals buried are scandals squared, conquered by grace 11/3/07
   
Gerald Renner – Spiritual Fire-fighter for the Church 10/27/07
   
Let us empty Wal-Mart’s aisles this Christmas 10/20/07
   
St. Teresa of Avila - 2007 10/13/07
   
A New Bottoms-up Church? 10/6/07
   
Neither Jena nor the nation burned 9/29/07
   
A noose is a noose, is a noose 9/22/07
   
Still No Wagon Boss (revisting the article) 9/15/07
   
Why so shy a media on Mexico’s trucks? 9/8/07
   
Mexico’s trucks slated to roll over our US  highways September 6th 9/1/07
   
Homeland Security – the Holy Ground of Work 9/1/07
   
revisting: Saving Jim, one day, one basket at a time 8/25/07
   
Bombs into Teddy Bears 8/18/07
   
A Letter From South Africa 8/11/07
   
A collapsed bridge in a collapsing nation 8/4/07
   
Cardinal Mahony:  There is still unfinished business in L.A. 7/27/07
   
Catholics in turmoil over Los Angeles’ abused victims 7/21/07
   
Millions of Catholics disconnected from Washington and Rome 7/14/07
   
Reconstruction on the road to the Latin Mass 7/4/07
   
July Fourth, 2007: An awakening nation 6/30/07
   
Finding Peach Orchards in Sunday Liturgies
originally published Nov. 13, 2004
 
   
Father’s Day, 2007 6/16/07
   
St. Thomas and Corpus Christi 6/9/07
   
Finding God, ourselves, in our world 6/2/07
   
Memorial Day creates an invisible church 5/24/07
   
Memorial Day, Immigration, and violence untamed 5/19/07
   
Revisiting: Mother's Day — in the hope of spring 5/11/07
   
Revisiting: A Pulitzer Prize Mother 5/4/07

Article(s) back in the spotlight...

 
The crisis in Africa as reported 4 years ago:
Rome watches as numerous bishops and priests rape African Sisters
originally published March 26, 2004
 
   
Pope John Paul I – a light in the darkness  
   
Blessed Charles de Foucauld – Part One  
Blessed Charles de Foucauld – Part Two  
Blessed Charles de Foucauld – Part Three  
   
   
Opus Dei - Part V  
   
Opus Dei -  Part IV  
   
Not Our Kids, Opus Dei! -  Part III  
   
Not Our Kids, Opus Dei! - Part II  
   
Not Our Kids, Opus Dei! -  Part I   
   
The Ethics of Opus Dei  
   
Escriva’s canonization injures the Mystical Body 10/4/02
   
Silence on Escriva's canonization is no option 1/19/02
   
(Opus Dei related articles, as well as all the others, can still be found in the archives)  

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