Special Report

Myth-Busting the Mandate Debate

June 22, 2012 Sister Renée Mirkes 0

On August 1, 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) issued the guidelines and regulations for women’s “protective services,” and finalized them on February 10, […]

Essay

Submerged in the Ocean

June 21, 2012 David Paul Deavel 0

“I think more should be written about conversion within the Church. It is a more difficult subject than conversion without.”    — Flannery O’Connor By the time I was received into the Catholic Church 15 years […]

Books

A Poet Reflects on Our Times

June 20, 2012 Ann Applegarth 0

When Dana Gioia (pronounced JOY-uh) was appointed Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture at the University of Southern California, the position he now holds, David St. John of USC described his new colleague […]