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One of the first things Roman Catholics do when they enter the confessional is utter how long it has been since their last confession. But Franca Gargiulo can't remember the last time. Gargiulo is a spiritually thoughtful woman who went to Catholic school as a girl and at 44...
Dioceses in Philadelphia, Phoenix and Toledo, Ohio, say they're planning similar Lenten campaigns for 2008--and some priests are even hearing confessions in venues likes shopping malls. Church watchers like Martin applaud all this as a sign that "the church, like Jesus, is capable of being creative about getting...
Evelyn Waugh doesn’t give us exciting heroes. The worlds he sketches are too full of cynicism, decay, and dissipation for shining personalities or unambiguous moral champions. But occasionally he gives us someone that we can get behind, a deeply flawed character who struggles mightily with issues of...
3. Luxembourg is 87 percent Roman Catholic. Yeah, sort of like the Vatican City.
Members of Harvard’s Jewish and Muslim communities broke fasts together Saturday night to celebrate two of the holiest holidays in each religion and to highlight the commonalities between the two faiths. Saturday was the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur, also known as the Day of Atonement, and Muslims...