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Taking stock tips at faith value
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jmcgee
Looking for a little investing advice? How about some moral guidelines for where to place your money? Have no fear: Big Christian churches buy and sell stocks and bonds for their building and retirement plans. But they sometimes feel bad about the awful things they can end up financing – gambling, drugs, war. So they’ve…
Fr. Maciel, plagiarist
By
jmcgee
So says the Legion of Christ: In an effort to distance itself from the wrongdoings of its founder, the Legion of Christ has recently circulated an internal memo detailing how a long venerated work of spirituality attributed to Fr. Marcial Maciel was actually a slight re-writing of a book from a little-known Spanish author. “El…
R.I.P., Jennifer Jones
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jmcgee
To generations of Catholics, she will always be Bernadette. Jennifer Jones died yesterday at the age of 90.
Oy to the world: the Jewish composers of Christmas songs
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jmcgee
The cabaret singer Michael Feinstein points out something many may not know: some of the best-loved songs about Christmas were written, in fact, by composers who were Jewish: The evolution of Christmas is reflected to a degree in its music. As the holiday has become more secular, so have its songs, with religious and spiritual…
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