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October 2001

October 17, 2001

Digging deeper than ‘Where was God?’

Time is passing, but that stack of newspapers in the corner is growing.Time is passing,...

October 10, 2001

Buying St. Nostradamus

When American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the Pentagon, a jet-fuel fireball claimed most of...

October 03, 2001

Apocalyptic questions for the press

Surely it was the strangest question a journalist asked on the day the world changed.The...

September 2001

September 26, 2001

Saints at Ground Zero

The first time Father John Romas approached ground zero it was hard to find the...

September 19, 2001

What comes after the anger?

Terry Anderson thought he had conquered his anger at the terrorists who locked him away...

September 12, 2001

Father, forgive them

Just after dawn, Father Seamus Murtagh got up to write his Sunday meditation.The appointed text...

September 05, 2001

My Generation: Hooking Up, Part II

Things can get pretty tense when parents and teen-agers talk about premarital sex. No matter...

August 2001

August 29, 2001

Hooking up, in the silence — Part I

The girls thought they were "hooking up" with some fraternity brothers. But the guys called...

August 22, 2001

Silent guns on Religious Right

Once there was a man who lived in a lighthouse on the foggy Atlantic. This...

August 15, 2001

Faith, journalism and ‘the facts’

After another day of watching Pope John Paul II shake Communist Poland, American political philosopher...

August 08, 2001

Hypernews and the life of faith

When a life-or-death crisis landed Paul Weyrich in the hospital, the conservative patriarch found himself...

August 01, 2001

God, man, hobbits & Tolkien

In the beginning was Eru, the One, who also was called Iluvatar."And he made first...

July 2001

July 25, 2001

Catholic vote? Which Catholic vote?

The aging patriarch's hands and voice shook, but his moral vision was solid as a...

July 18, 2001

Those online puzzles for churches

Creekside Church visitor cards contain all the data slots and questions one would expect at...

July 11, 2001

Listening to the voices inside China

Han Dongfang's passport says Hong Kong, but his voice says Beijing railway worker.When mainland listeners...

July 04, 2001

One TV, one family

The salesman at the electronics superstore smiled broadly, but his eyes revealed that he thought...

June 2001

June 27, 2001

Satan’s throne in a Church?

The Anglican Communion's civil war has flared up again, with more headlines about sex, sin...

June 20, 2001

Bono’s crusade comes to DC

As lunch ended in the ornate U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee conference room, Sen. Jesse...

June 13, 2001

Father Scalia’s vocation

As the boy grew to become a man, he explored the marble chambers that pump...

June 06, 2001

Charlie Ward, sinner

Every Sunday, countless Christians around the world recite an ancient prayer that begins: "I believe,...

May 2001

May 30, 2001

Anglican World Wide Web wars, Part II

No one in the Episcopal Church hierarchy knows what will happen at Christ Church in...

May 23, 2001

Anglican World Wide Web wars, Part I

Soon after the Episcopal Church voted to offer "pastoral care" for those in "life-long committed...

May 16, 2001

Who is praying for McVeigh?

As every movie buff knows, condemned prisoners always get to say a few final words....

May 09, 2001

Mother’s Day for the earth mothers

Few moments are as precious to mothers as the hushed rituals of bedtime. Kristin Madden's...

May 02, 2001

The Gray Lady’s gospel crusade

Dr. Warren Hern had "just finished performing an abortion for the last patient of the...

April 2001

April 25, 2001

Reading the Sporting Jews

When scribe Jonathan Tobin selected his all-Jewish baseball team, it was tempting to pencil in...

April 18, 2001

Year 13 — A brand name for your soul

Anyone strolling through last year's National Funeral Directors Association convention could catch glimpses of Baby...

April 11, 2001

Yes, Columbine was a God thing

The weeks before Easter are rich with ancient images of suffering, sacrifice, death and hard...

April 04, 2001

Working on our spiritual issues?

It was a "slack day" in the confessional, with "only 88" parishioners receiving the sacrament...

March 2001

March 28, 2001

God of the Fridge

The clear plastic egg rack is empty right now and it mocks me whenever I...