U.S. Catholic magazine - April 2011
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COVER STORY
Don’t be crude: It’s time to end
our addiction to oil
Letting go of our petroleum-based lifestyle may require the 12 steps, argues Dan Misleh in Sounding Board, and the first is admitting we have a problem. In Feedback readers consider which steps they are ready to take.
FEATURES
Upon this empty lot
Building a house is a big job, but making a place for the people of God is a task of biblical proportions, reports Judith Dupré.
Sidebar: New homes for old church treasures
WEB ONLY! It's easy being green
Parks and re-Creation
It took God eons to create the river that runs through the South Bronx, but it only took decades for a concrete plant to ruin it. To bring it back to life? Well, that took a youth group, reports Megan Sweas.
WEB ONLY! A video tour of the Bronx and Concrete Plant Park
INTERVIEW
Universal Savior
Christ is evolution’s spiritual side, says Sister Ilia Delio, O.S.F. in Expert Witness, and we all have a part to play in bringing his presence to fullness.
WEB ONLY! Christ and extraterrestrials
ESSAYS
On fertile ground
Plowing a field with a team of horses may be a throwback to times gone by, but it also led Robert L. Ernst to contemplate an ancient eucharistic connection to all creation.
And now a word from your sponsor
Godparenting doesn’t end after fulfilling the “Easter duty” of standing up at the baptism. In this letter, Dennis Mauro-Huse offers sage advice for his gaggle of 11 godchildren.
Lip service
Good Friday’s once-a-year veneration of the cross is a reminder to live always in the mystery of Christ’s victory over death, writes Gabe Huck in Practicing Catholic.
DEPARTMENTS
Editors' Note
You May Be Right Letters
Signs of the Times News
Catholic Tastes
Culture in Context: Reviews
Glad You Asked: What are the Ten Commandments?
At Home with Our Faith
Eye of the Beholder
Jerry Bleem, O.F.M.
COLUMNS
The Examined Life - Bryan Cones
Boxed in
Margin Notes - Kevin Clarke
Tweet like an Egyptian
Culture in Context - Patrick McCormick
Cutthroat Choreography
Testaments - Alice Camille
Traitors among us
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