style=width:300px;height:200px;float:right;" >THE IDEA of the covenant was central to the Jewish people’s understanding of their relationship with God. They and God had made a mutually binding...
ON APRIL 16, 2007, Pope Benedict XVI will celebrate his 80th birthday. Three days later, April 19, will also mark his first two years on the Chair of Peter, and the Church will remember...
IN OCTOBER 2006 the US Conference of Catholic Bishops wrote a letter to President Bush opposing the planned construction of 700 miles of security fences and barriers along the United States-Mexico...
BILL AND HIS wife were high school sweethearts when he went off to college. They kept in touch via telephone, but one day they had a disagreement. Abruptly, he announced, over the phone, that they...
ALTHOUGH everything in life seemed right, there was, nevertheless, something very wrong for Jamie. Upon graduation from college, she’d been hired into her ‘dream job’ as a media...
THE PAPAL TRIP to Turkey late last year became something much more than the Holy Father originally intended, but capped a year when Pope Benedict XVI’s pontificate assumed one of its defining...
