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Bring your laptop to the Reading Room
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
This is a pretty remarkable piece of news — poignant and, perhaps, prophetic. For the first time, a major American newspaper is abandoning paper and ink: After a century of continuous publication, The Christian Science Monitor will abandon its weekday print edition and appear online only, its publisher announced Tuesday. The cost-cutting measure makes The…
Solomon’s mines?
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
Scholarly skeptics who have doubted that King Solomon ever existed are being told: “Not so fast.” New archeological discoveries are casting new light on the ancient culture of the Middle East: A massive copper smelting plant in the biblical land of Edom is at least three centuries older than researchers previously believed, placing it firmly…
“Closing the adultery gap”
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
Whatever happened to fidelity? You have to wonder. And this analysis from the New York Times doesn’t provide any easy answers: A handful of new studies suggest surprising changes in the marital landscape. Infidelity appears to be on the rise, particularly among older men and young couples. Notably, women appear to be closing the adultery…
Confused? No wonder
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
A few weeks back, I posted on the multiplying voter guides for Catholics that are blossoming this autumn. And now CNS is wondering if they’re just leaving people scratching their heads: If a group of Catholics were to sit down to read four or five of the “Catholic voter guides” in circulation before Election Day,…
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