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My article did not object to the decision to close certain parishes, including Our Lady of Vilnius. In fact, I wrote that some parishes needed to...
Commonweal, 05/04/07 by Grant Gallicho · More from publication -
Ideals and reality: religious order and laity clash over the fate of a Catholic high school
The e-mails arrived around midnight, in late June, after the term had ended at Notre Dame High School for Boys in Niles, Ill. The school president...
National Catholic Reporter, 04/06/07 by Grant Gallicho · More from publication -
Shutting the door: how not to close a parish
Soon after Cardinal Edward M. Egan became archbishop of New York, a Catholic publication asked me to write a piece about the state of the...
Commonweal, 03/23/07 by Grant Gallicho · More from publication -
Thanksgiving in October
There were plenty of things to frighten a seven-year-old on the South Side of Chicago in 1983, but nothing struck fear into my young heart like the...
Commonweal, 11/18/05 by Grant Gallicho · More from publication -
Like a prayer: Sufjan Stevens's 'Seven Swans'
For the better part of the last month my iPod has served as little more than a delivery vehicle for the music of Sufjan Stevens, a thirty-year-old...
Commonweal, 09/09/05 by Grant Gallicho · More from publication -
The cost of justice: John Patrick Shanley's 'doubt'
Playwrights and screenwriters have had a several years to mine the clergy sexual-abuse scandal, but it is only with John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer...
Commonweal, 04/22/05 by Grant Gallicho · More from publication -
One sinner's story
Father Joe Father Joe The Man Who Saved My Soul Tony Hendra Random House, $24.95, 271 pp. Is there a Catholic news story today that's not...
Commonweal, 09/24/04 by Grant Gallicho · More from publication -
Survey says: who's reading 'Commonweal'?
About every four years since the 1980s, Commonweal has conducted a reader survey, and each one has provided a fascinating snapshot of who's reading...
Commonweal, 06/18/04 by Grant Gallicho · More from publication -
A philosopher's struggle to believe: brilliant and singular, Simone Weil spent her brief life obsessed with the search for faith
LETTER TO A PRIEST By Simone Weil Penguin, 85 pages, $12.95 LETTER TO A PRIEST By Simone Weil Penguin, 85 pages, $12.95 Simone Weil was direct...
National Catholic Reporter, 02/13/04 by Grant Gallicho · More from publication -
Planned obsolescence: the wrong prescription for Medicare reform
I don't take a lot of drugs. Pop an Advil here, a Tylenol there. Dose up on NyQuil when the going gets really rough. On the list of heaviest...
Commonweal, 01/30/04 by Grant Gallicho · More from publication
