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...meaningfully engaged my spirituality because it more meaningfully engaged my humanity - and, as strange as this sounds to my atheist friends, because it more meaningfully engaged my reason, not just my senses (although I'm as much a sucker for Palestrina and Michelangelo as anyone else). What gets lost amid the Catholic Church's reputation for obscurantism is the fact that the Catholic religion, with its earnest contemplation of Christ's human as well as divine nature, stresses reason as the turnstile to faith and the great good that belief in God can inspire...
...feel very bad. I'm beyond words about the inconvenience this has caused.' THE REV. RAYMOND LEE CHO-MIN, chairman of Oasis Hong Kong Airlines, on the budget carrier's collapse amid nearly $130 million in debts...
...Virgin Mary, I looked at it through my loupe and offered him $210. He was greatly impressed. "If this was high school, that would be gone," he said. Apparently Duncan had some pressing cash needs in high school that he chose not to expound upon. But even amid the recession, Duncan took his necklace back, happier with it than he'd ever been. "I feel like my dad was validated for all those years of telling me to hold on to my medal," he said. "It might go back on my rearview mirror...
...devout Catholics crowd the new Washington Nationals Stadium this morning for a Holy Mass led by Pope Benedict XVI, animal protection is not likely to be on their minds. Amid the great questions of war, justice, and life, animals might also appear a humble concern for the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics. But the Pope himself has suggested that the issue of animal protection is far from irrelevant to the Catholic faith...
Critics of Gordon Brown - and amid sliding approval ratings and mutterings from the ranks of his own Labour Party, there are more than a few - complain that Britain's Prime Minister lacks vision. They say he's a details man - not a bad attribute in a Finance Minister, the role he occupied for just over a decade, but a weakness in a national leader whose job it is to discern and articulate the bigger picture. Yet from the Scottish home Brown has owned for more than 20 years, a solid family house with large bay windows and a sloping front...