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Read: Not Less Than Everything
Article Author: Bryan ConesEdited by Catherine Wolff (HarperOne, 2013)Before passing by yet another collection of “Catholic writers on X” in your real or virtual book browsing, take the time to scan...
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Watch: Promised Land
Article Author: Molly Jo RoseDirected by Gus Van Sant (Focus Features, 2013)The film Promised Land asks the question: Who is the bad guy? Is it the big, greedy company that wants to destroy traditional...
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Listen: The Invisible Way
Article Author: John ChristmanLow (Sub Pop Records, 2013)The release of a new Low album often feels like an unexpected gift. Not that all of their albums are unqualified masterpieces, but each of them...
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Read: Together on Retreat
Article Author: Caitlyn SchmidBy James Martin, S.J. (HarperOne, 2013)If you’re looking for an easily accessible way to spend some quiet time with God, here’s a retreat that you can go on from the...
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Book Marks: New releases on NCAA basketball, ancient religions, and sacred texts
Article Author: Caitlyn SchmidHere are some interesting new book releases for April: April 2013Ramblers: Loyola-Chicago 1963—The Team That Changed the Color of College BasketballBy Michael LenehanWhen...
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Watch: Quartet
Article Author: Patrick McCormickDirected by Dustin Hoffman (Weinstein Company, 2012)Imagine a kindergarten full of wildly talented octogenarians preparing to put on a school musical and you have a...
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Listen: Hummingbird
Article Author: Molly Jo RoseLocal Natives (Frenchkiss Records, 2013)If Martin Mull is right and “writing about music is like dancing about architecture,” then there isn’t much point to the music...
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Read: Rebuilt: The Story of a Catholic Parish
Article Author: Antionette ThomasBy Michael White and Tom Corcoran (Ave Maria, 2013)Change isn’t easy and neither is church. But change is what parishioners and their leaders must do if they want their...
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Read: The Vatican Diaries
Article Author: J. Peter NixonBy John Thavis (Viking, 2013)License plates on cars registered in Vatican City bear the abbreviation SCV for Stato della Città del Vaticano. The local joke in Rome is that...
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Watch: To the Wonder
Article Author: John ChristmanDirected by Terrence Malick (Redbud Pictures, 2013)Over the course of 40 years auteur filmmaker Terrence Malick has made just five feature films. Yet these films have been...
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Book Marks: New releases on King Herod, suffering, and spiritual transformation
Article Author: Caitlyn SchmidHere are some interesting new book releases for May: May 2013Fleeing Herod: A Journey Through Coptic Egypt with the Holy FamilyBy James CowanAfter Jesus was born in...
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Watch: No
Article Author: John ChristmanDirected by Pablo Larraín (Sony Pictures, 2012)Topple a dictator with a rainbow and a jingle? Lash back against oppression with candy-coated images and idyllic picnic...
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Listen: Regions of Light and Sound of God
Article Author: Nicholas LiaoJim James (ATO Records, 2013)Kentucky rock outfit My Morning Jacket made its name in the early 2000s off its signature brew of country and psychedelic rock drenched in...
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Read: Sin: The Early History of an Idea
Article Author: James P. CahillBy Paula Fredriksen (Princeton, 2012)While it sounds a daunting task to explore the shifting Christian idea of sin as it progressed through the first four centuries of...
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Read: Help, Thanks, Wow
Article Author: Maureen AboodBy Anne Lamott (Riverhead Books, 2012)Leave it to Anne Lamott to take something that feels overwhelming, then put it on our plates and cut it up for us into pieces that we...
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Book Marks: New releases on intimacy, Pope Francis, and Mary, Mother of God
Article Author: Caitlyn SchmidHere are some interesting new book releases: June 2013:Imitating Mary: Ten Marian Virtues for the Modern MomBy Marge FenelonIn her book Imitating Mary (Ave Maria Press,...
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Watch: Sign Painters
Article Author: Meghan Murphy-GillBy Faythe Levine & Sam Macon (Radar Studios, 2013)A commercial building in my neighborhood recently underwent renovations to transform the space into a gym. As...
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Read: Why Priests? A Failed Tradition
Article Author: Nicholas LiaoBy Garry Wills (Viking, 2013)One of the church’s most noted inside critics, historian Garry Wills, shows no signs of slowing at nearly 80 years old. In fact, his latest...
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Listen: Desire Lines
Article Author: John ChristmanCamera Obscura (4AD, 2013)Beauty is worth waiting for, as is joy. The Scottish band Camera Obscura’s magnificent album My Maudlin Career was released to critical acclaim...
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Read: In Quest of the Jewish Mary
Article Author: A. Regina SchulteBy Mary Christine Athans (Orbis, 2013)This scholarly study is a valuable contribution to the body of works aimed at finding Miriam of Nazareth—“Mary” to us, and...
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