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Mary of Magadala feast spirits celebrations
Christine Schenk (Photo by Warde Jones)  July 22 marks the feast day of St. Mary of Magdala, and celebrations are being held across the United States and in Canada, Australia and Sweden to honor the saint once wrongly thought to be a reformed prostitute and now recognized as “the apostle to the apostles.”
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Midwest Floods
By DENNIS CODAY and RICH HEFFERN
Scientists link extreme weather patterns with global warming.
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Issues more than skin deep
Four high school students coolly regard a man and a woman who are in more than one sense unclothed, observing the standing bodies from various points.
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Religion in Europe: Christianity on the defensive/Christianity under siege
As Islam infiltrates secular Europe, how will the religious landscape be reshaped?
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Compassionate Capitalists
Young social entrepreneurs merge values and business savvy to change the world.
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Sant'Egidio at 40: Sant'Egidio: Linking friendship and service in world-changing ways
Though previously little known in the United States, a Catholic lay movement started 40 years ago by high school students in Rome is gaining members in U.S. cities.
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Haiti: Siding with KIDS to end cruelty
If countries took psalms as slogans, Haiti’s certainly would be the lament uttered from the cross: My God, why have you abandoned me?
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Texas: new Catholic frontier
To the uninitiated, attempts to describe the congregation at Good Shepherd Catholic Church in tiny Johnson City, Texas, could sound like a routine from a stand-up comedian: “A white rancher, a Mexican day laborer and a Nigerian prince walk into a parish.” Change “parish” to “bar,” and you’ve got a setup in search of a punch line.
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Hard as Nails: Hammering kids for Christ
Controversial Catholic youth minister Justin Fatica is tough and bruised, but softhearted, and few dispute that he has the knack for reaching troubled kids.
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Inside Myanmar: An overview of a troubled land
Where thousands of Buddhist monks and nuns walked the streets for alms, now a visitor to Yangon, Myanmar, saw not 50 altogether, and barbed wire surrounded the great Shwedagon Pagoda.
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Artist Meinrad Craighead in her studio in Albuerquer, N.M. Photo by Rich Heffern
 
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In the name of the mother
By RICH HEFFERN
Meinrad Craighead has spent her life exploring in art the human-divine relationship...
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EDITORIAL: Humanae Vitae at 40 years
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EDITOR'S BOX: Balanced notions of deity
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Catholic Workers
Young energy enlivens celebration of 75th anniversary.
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Debate surfaces over origins of the 'Serenity Prayer'
The origins of the "Serenity Prayer" -- the authorship is generally attributed to theologian Reinhold Niebuhr -- have been called into question by the alumni magazine at Yale University.
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Feature: Adrian's Angels
With humor and empathy, writer Chris Adrian creates a weird, wild world.
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Stafford Betty column: After the abortion, mizuko kuyo
Meet the mizuko. In Japanese, a mizuko is a fetus that miscarries or is aborted.
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