Sightings Articles
People of Faith — Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez
Geoffrey Nunberg comments on the growing usage of the phrase "people of faith" in Sunday's New York Times (December 26). Increasingly used in place of "churchgoers" or "believers," the media has been busy citing the words, deeds, and intentions of pe...
December 30, 2004
Reconciliation and Peace — Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez
Reconciliation and peace. This is the banner under which the Catholic Church and its leadership have been marching this week. First, in New York. A group of Catholic Cardinals including Chicago's Francis George and other notables from around the w...
January 22, 2004
Milton, Mass Mary — Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez
Recently, an image of the Virgin Mary appeared in the window of a Massachusetts hospital prompting 25,000 visitors. The hospital took no official position as to the authenticity of the apparition, but tried their best to accommodate the pilgrims who ...
July 7, 2003
Matrices — Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez
"The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us, even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes." One ca...
May 22, 2003
9/11: Light and Shadow -- Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez
Yesterday was a solemn time of remembrance and mourning in our nation, the first anniversary of September 11, 2001. Bells, and silence, tolled from the three disaster sites in Pennsylvania, Washington, and New York, and in ceremonies across the U.S. ...
September 12, 2002
Of Proselytizing and Subway Tracts -- Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez
As an inhabitant of a religiously vibrant city in a religiously vibrant nation, my "sightings" of religion in public life often come from the street. Lately my husband and I have been watching the tract war between Jews for Jesus and the Jewish Commu...