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• Saying goodbye to limbo 

  When I was a young pimple in grammar school more than 100 pounds ago, we could get a hearty giggle out of the notion of limbo. If a classmate...

  National Catholic Reporter, 02/03/06 by Tim Unsworth · More from publication

• Pink smoke rises from Chicago 

  I never got to the Vatican to witness John Paul II's funeral or to hang out at the conclave that gave us Benedict XVI. Instead, Jean and I took the...

  National Catholic Reporter, 06/17/05 by Tim Unsworth · More from publication

• The changing face of Mary: Protestants adopted the best that Catholics had without the holy water bottles that had screw-top heads 

  Would you believe it? The Blessed Mother made the cover of TIME magazine (March 21). Protestants, we learn, are beginning to embrace Mary. Would...

  National Catholic Reporter, 04/29/05 by Tim Unsworth · More from publication

• A few old men gather and shine 

  The Romeos continue to meet Wednesdays at Gulliver's on Howard. They are men of habit, eating much the same items each week for lunch. They are...

  National Catholic Reporter, 03/04/05 by Tim Unsworth · More from publication

• To labor is to pray, and the goodies go on eBay 

  Recently, when wife Jean bought an old marionette on eBay, I decided to investigate what that magic resource would have by way of religious goods...

  National Catholic Reporter, 02/25/05 by Tim Unsworth · More from publication

• She was parish saint of my church 

  Since 1978, John Paul II has canonized over 450 saints and declared over 1,300 others as blessed. His 17 predecessors, from Clement VIII...

  National Catholic Reporter, 10/08/04 by Tim Unsworth · More from publication

• Marry 'em and bury 'em: the church is truly Catholic when it comes to death 

  Jean and I walk over to St. Clement's for the 8 a.m. Mass each Sunday. It's a big domed Byzantine church with saints and angels glaring out at you...

  National Catholic Reporter, 07/02/04 by Tim Unsworth · More from publication

• Poverty in America 

  THE WORKING POOR: INVISIBLE IN AMERICA By David K. Shipler Knopf, 336 pages, $25 THE WORKING POOR: INVISIBLE IN AMERICA By David K. Shipler...

  National Catholic Reporter, 05/21/04 by Tim Unsworth · More from publication

• The stage trial of Cardinal Law: 'adaptation' reenacts the legal drama of Boston's abuse scandal 

  Just the other Sunday, Jean and I went over to the tiny Bailiwick Theater on Chicago's Belmont Avenue to see "Sin: A Cardinal Deposed." It wasn't a...

  National Catholic Reporter, 04/16/04 by Tim Unsworth · More from publication

• Celebrating two hell-raising priests - Column 

  Recently, the Chicago archdiocese lost two of its finest priests. It is a vast diocese, peopled by many good priests who keep their eyes focused on...

  National Catholic Reporter, 02/27/04 by Tim Unsworth · More from publication