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… The son of a good friend of mine took his own life recently. He had suffered much mental anguish before he acted. We are left …

… new policies. They will be the "test case," if you will, the proverbial "canary in the coal mine." We Catholics might also watch closely. Bishop Gene Robinson said something else to The New …

… specify less attitude and independence, along with an operating system perfectly in sync with mine. I would check and re-check the SKU number, making sure I got the style and model just right …

… to recognize the initiative that God is taking. Earlier this week, I met with a friend of mine. In fact, I ordained him quite a few years ago and he's been a missionary in Tanzania for …

… more than a harbinger of doom. She and the organization she represented, FutureChurch, were mining church history and our sacred texts for alternatives that would preserve the integrity of …

… salvific function) and support the GOP's approach no matter how unfruitful it is. A friend of mine with a degree in psychology mischievously suggested an experiment called "two-by-four …

… honestly, I can't focus on any of those things. All I can hear is her accent. It's just like mine – or, really, just like my cousin Joanna's. If I close my eyes, it is Joanna I hear talking …

… practice, and human rights in armed conflict dealing with chemical weapons, war crimes, land mines and forensics. The physicians' group's Web site does refer to abortion in various contexts. …

… NCR staffer Rich Heffern writes much more eloquently on this subject.) These things were on my mine when I came across this essay by Jack Heppner of Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada: I am coming to …

… today, where Paul says, “Gladly I will boast of my weakness, that the strength of Jesus may be mine. So I rejoice when I suffer infirmities, humiliations, want, persecutions, all for Christ, …

… on citizens -- we find a therapy for arrogance. There is no such thing as absolute authority, mine or anybody else’s. There are only multiple authorities in different dimensions of life, to …

… some eyebrows in the ethics community. The test is being viewed as the “canary in the coal mine,” Tolleson said. If parents have the option to terminate a pregnancy early based on a …

… do, in fragmented excess, our search for silence is quite natural. The words above are not mine. They are taken from Gus Gordon’s introduction in his new book, Solitude and Compassion: The …

… about. Much of the debate now circling Vatican II comes from people who have backgrounds like mine -- or claim sympathies with people who have backgrounds like mine. They are traditionalists who say Vatican II confused the average …

… their son and his son's pretty, brunette girlfriend were sitting at the table next to mine. While things were getting settled, David Crosby and Graham Nash came over for a good chat …

… status quo. For Tim Russert there never was a status quo he couldn’t disturb. A nun friend of mine sent me an email today saying, “Tim Russert was the best. Such an interviewer; a good man; a …

… only a smoke can cure. Understanding this aspect of human nature, people in neighborhoods like mine sought to adjust laws to cap the number (and locations) of stores dispensing the stuff. Four …

… village? And how will they start over? The crops are ruined, livestock have died, and land mines have been laid. Most of the shops and businesses have been destroyed. Many homes are …

… there was a kind of collective inferiority complex among Catholic journalists. A friend of mine once asked me when I was going to work for a "real" newspaper. Now the special-interest …

… affiliates in 95 countries. She served as chief strategist and spokesperson for the ban land mines campaign during the Sept. 1997 diplomatic conference in Oslo where an unprecedented …