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Stone by stone: cistercian architecture of silence, contemplation coming to America
VINA, CALIF -- Cistercian architecture has been called the architecture of silence. Austere and simple, it shuns color, sculpture and decoration to...
National Catholic Reporter, 12/12/08 by Margot Patterson · More from publication -
Cornered
Fr. Dominic DeLay Fr. Dominic DeLay When he's not serving as chaplain to a monastery of contemplative nuns in the heart of Hollywood, Dominican...
National Catholic Reporter, 10/17/08 by Margot Patterson · More from publication -
Kerry Kennedy's catholic calling
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the preface to her new book, Kerry Kennedy writes of growing up in a family battered by...
National Catholic Reporter, 10/03/08 by Margot Patterson · More from publication -
Catholic in many ways
BOOK INFORMATION BOOK INFORMATION Being Catholic Now: Prominent Americans Talk About Change in the Church and the Quest for Meaning By...
National Catholic Reporter, 10/03/08 by Margot Patterson · More from publication -
What's the news? See it at the Newseum
In a city full of museums, the Newseum is the new kid on the block. Located at Sixth and Pennsylvania Avenue, just across from the National Gallery...
National Catholic Reporter, 08/08/08 by Margot Patterson · More from publication -
'John Brown' looks at the cost of freedom: a truly American opera about the struggle to end slavery
He was an abolitionist, a man of faith and in today's terms a terrorist. John Brown, the fierce foe of slavery who launched a raid on the U.S....
National Catholic Reporter, 05/30/08 by Margot Patterson · More from publication -
Carbonated holiness: in their first encounter, writers Anne Lamott and Elizabeth Gilbert fizz with wit
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The closest parallel that comes to mind is the near legendary slugfest between Norman Mailer and...
National Catholic Reporter, 04/18/08 by Margot Patterson · More from publication -
A historian's historian: an unorthodox traditionalist, John Lukacs challenges both the right and the left
Visiting Kansas City, Mo., to give a lecture on World War I, John Lukacs is reading The New York Times when we meet. "It's a chore--reading the...
National Catholic Reporter, 04/04/08 by Margot Patterson · More from publication -
Pilgrim soul: memoirist Patricia Hampl talks about the quest literature of our time
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Reading Patricia Hampl is a little like coming home, not necessarily to the house you grew up in...
National Catholic Reporter, 01/11/08 by Margot Patterson · More from publication -
The beauty in the silence
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] James Stephen Behrens is familiar to many NCR readers because of the frequent graceful...
National Catholic Reporter, 10/05/07 by Margot Patterson · More from publication
