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  • 'Da Vinci Code' opens with estimated $29 million

    05/21/2006 5:18:45 AM PDT · by Aquinasfan · 354 replies · 4,902+ views
    CNN ^ | 5/20/06 | AP
    LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- "The Da Vinci Code" banked an estimated $29 million at the box office on its first day in theaters, an industry official said Saturday, positioning the film to turn in the strongest opening weekend for any movie this year.
  • The Wages of Tolerance: Catholic Women Who Stay

    12/08/2005 10:24:05 AM PST · by Antoninus · 71 replies · 1,030+ views
    BC Alumni Magazine ^ | Fall 2005 | Alice McDermott
    I could no more stop being Catholic than I could stop being a native New Yorker or of Irish descent, my parent's child or my children's mother. Being Catholic is a condition of my being. It might as well be genetic. Catholicism is my faith, my culture, my heritage. The Church is my social community and my spiritual sanctuary. It is the source of the very language with which I contemplate life, and death, give thanks, seek comfort, define and comprehend the substance of things hoped for. To leave the Church for another—less sexist, less maddening—religious institution would save me...