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Breaking Bad #511: "Confessions" 26 Aug 2013 | 07:34 pm
Before we get to the episode, some of this week's commentary: Anna Gunn, the terrific actor who plays Skyler White on Breaking Bad, wrote an op-ed in the New York Times offering her perspective on the...
Who Did It? 26 Aug 2013 | 01:49 am
As war-mongering heats up in Washington, London, and Paris, and the White House asserts that it was almost certainly the Assad Regime that used chemical weapons last week, here is a Ha'aretz story tha...
The Church and the March on Washington: "Leaping into the air for joy" 26 Aug 2013 | 01:09 am
Yesterday I posted some excerpts from Francis E. Kearns's report on the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, fifty years ago this week. Joseph Komonchak's comment on that post fills in some very ...
The Church and the March on Washington: "The shock of relevance" 25 Aug 2013 | 01:28 am
The fiftieth anniversary of the August 28, 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom is an excellent excuse to look into the Commonweal archives. What did Commonweal contributors have to say about...
What makes for a "good" liturgy? 24 Aug 2013 | 08:45 pm
Michael Garvey’s thread below, about parish-shopping, has prompted an intelligent discussion which I wish many priests would read and take to heart. I was particularly struck by Claire’s first post, ...
Being comfortable 23 Aug 2013 | 11:29 pm
Over at Our Sunday Visitor, my friend Greg Erlandson has posted a thought-provoking column, entitled Parish the Thought, which raises the question of where one should go to Mass: One’s geographical pa...
Now on our homepage: Joseph Bottum on the case for same-sex marriage 23 Aug 2013 | 11:23 pm
Just posted to the homepage, Joseph Bottum’s essay “The Things We Share: A Catholic’s Case for Same-Sex Marriage.” Bottum, former chief editor of First Things, writes: “We are now at the point where,...
The Things We Share 23 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
There's this guy I know in Manhattan. Call him Jim. Jim Watson. We’re friends, I guess. We used to be friends, anyway—grabbing a hamburger together near Gramercy Park, from time to time, or meeting ou...
Elshtain, Augustine, and Just War (again) 23 Aug 2013 | 03:29 am
I’m at work now on the early stages of a longer piece that promises to revisit the arguments leading up to (and following) the invasion of Iraq in 2003. I’m especially interested in evaluating argumen...
New Mexico Wedding Photographer Case 23 Aug 2013 | 01:41 am
A while back, I blogged about the pending New Mexico case in which a wedding photographer who refused to photograph a gay commitment ceremony was sued for violating the state's antidiscrimination laws...
