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Catholic Church

Francis and the Nuns

by Mary Gordon,

Is the new Vatican all talk?

Thy Kingdom Plumb

From “Holy Springs and Holy Water: Underestimated Sources of Illness?” published last year in the Journal of Water and Health.

Days of Wine and Rosaries

by Ross Perlin,

Wine and Catholicism among the Tibetans of China’s Yunnan Province

Darling

by Richard Rodriguez,

A middle-aged woman in a brown wool suit tapped my shoulder after mass. She knew my name. She said she had read an interview I gave to an online magazine…

Thy parishioner’s wife

by Harper’s Staff,

Scorsese on the Cross

by Vince Passaro,

America’s last best tragedian

Deus ex vomica

by Gabriele Amorth, Marco Tosatti,Translated by Anthony Lydgate,

Radical will

by Deb Olin Unferth,

The wearin’ of the mean

by Harper’s Staff,

Untitled

by Lynsey Addario,

God Does Play Dice

by Stephen Haliczer,

From cards used in the board game Vatican: Unlock the Secrets of How Men Become Pope, created by Stephen Haliczer, a professor at Northern Illinois University. The game, which purports…