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Read: Open Mind, Faithful Heart
Article Author: Carmen AguinacoBy Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Crossroad Publishing, 2013)Open Mind, Faithful Heart: Meditations on Christian Discipleship is certainly not a book to read in one sitting, but...
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Read: St. Francis Poems
Sidebar title 1: Sidebar text 1: Sidebar title 2: Sidebar text 2: Author: Author Pretext: Article Author: Marjorie MaddoxBy David Craig (Wipf and Stock, 2013)2013 was a year to ponder afresh St....
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Book Marks: New releases on Kenya, Notre Dame, and pastoral transitions
Article Author: Caitlyn SchmidHere are some interesting new book releases for November: November 2013Stories of Early Christianity: Creative Retellings of Faith and HistoryBy vanThanh Nguyen, SVD,...
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Watch: Still Mine
Sidebar title 1: Sidebar text 1: Sidebar title 2: Sidebar text 2: Author: Author Pretext: Article Author: Patrick McCormickDirected by Michael McGowan (Samuel Goldwyn, 2013)In Michael McGowan’s...
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Read: Immigration and the Next America
Article Author: Meinrad Scherer-EmundsBy Archbishop Jose H. Gomez (Our Sunday Visitor, 2013)As chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Migration, Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez has been one of...
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Listen: Trouble Will Find Me
Article Author: John ChristmanThe National (4AD, 2013)The National’s latest album, Trouble Will Find Me, is an unabashedly brilliant collection of 13 songs that could easily be the album of the year....
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Watch: Gravity
Article Author: John ChristmanDirected by Alfonso Cuarón (Warner Bros., 2013)Films like Alfonso Cuarón’s magnificent Gravity are few and far between. Too often, American moviegoers are set adrift...
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Book Marks: New releases on Advent and Christmas, pausing, and puppies
Article Author: Caitlyn SchmidHere are some interesting new book releases for December: December 2013Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope, and RepairBy Anne LamottFrom the New York Times bestselling...
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Read: Off the Cuff & Over the Collar
Article Author: Alfred J. GarrottoBy Bishop John McCarthy (Greenhills Publishing, 2013)Bishop John McCarthy pastored the Diocese of Austin, Texas from 1986 to 2001. After serving as executive director...
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Read: Atchison blue
Article Author: Carol DeChantJudith Valente (Sorin Books, 2013)As is the case for so many Catholics today, Judith Valente’s faith had been chipped away by the clergy sexual abuse scandals, by...
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Listen: Wise Up Ghost
Article Author: Nicholas LiaoElvis Costello and The Roots (Blue Note, 2013)The coupling might raise a few eyebrows, but Elvis Costello and hip-hop outfit The Roots have more in common than one might...
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Watch: 12 Years A Slave
Article Author: Elizabeth LefebvreDirected by Steve McQueen (Fox Searchlight, 2013)Idyllic sunsets, moss-covered trees, chirping birds—in Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave, this backdrop is not a...
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Listen: Let's Be Still
Article Author: Molly Jo RoseThe Head and The Heart (Sub Pop, 2013)Can we agree to stop comparing everyone to Mumford & Sons? Can we just agree to let that go? Every other review of The Head and...
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Book Marks: New releases on Pope Francis, last-minute conversions, and the Mass
Article Author: Caitlyn SchmidHere are some interesting new book releases for January: January 2014Introduction to the Spiritual LifeBy Louis BouyerAs one of Vatican II’s influential attendees, Louis...
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Read: Enduring Lives
Article Author: A. Regina SchulteBy Carol Lee Flinders (Orbis, 2013)In a previous study, Carol Lee Flinders profiled some of the best-known women among medieval Christian mystics: Teresa of Àvila,...
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Read: There Were Also Many Women There
Article Author: Heather Grennan GaryBy Katharine E. Harmon (Liturgical Press, 2013)Ellen Gates Starr, cofounder of Hull House and convert to Catholicism in 1920, was frustrated by “the apparent...
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Read: Zealot
Sidebar title 1: Sidebar text 1: Sidebar title 2: Sidebar text 2: Author: Author Pretext: Article Author: Kathleen ManningBy Reza Aslan (Random House, 2013)Reza Aslan’s Zealot: The Life and Times of...
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Listen: Reflektor
Sidebar title 1: Sidebar text 1: Sidebar title 2: Sidebar text 2: Author: Author Pretext: Article Author: John ChristmanArcade Fire (Merge Records, 2013)What do you do after you’ve splashed onto the...
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Watch: Philomena
Sidebar title 1: Sidebar text 1: Sidebar title 2: Sidebar text 2: Author: Author Pretext: Article Author: Patrick McCormickDirected by Stephen Frears (The Weinstein Company, 2013)Philomena, Stephen...
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Read: Silence: A Christian History
Sidebar title 1: Sidebar text 1: Sidebar title 2: Sidebar text 2: Author: Author Pretext: Article Author: James P. CahillBy Diarmaid MacCulloch (Viking Adult, 2013)Surely Diarmaid MacCulloch...
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