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Whatever Rick Santorum's fate in the New Hampshire primary today, his near win in the Iowa caucuses inspired columnists Michael Gerson and David Brooks to burnish the candidate's image not only as champion of the family and conservative Christianity but as a political thinker. Santorum, they argued, is shaped by Catholic social teachings and in particular by the Catholic principle of subsidiarity.

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New today from the Century.

A friend sent me an e-mail before yesterday's Steelers-Broncos playoff game. He titled it, "The Steelers vs. God. Want to have brunch?"

The print version of the Century's recent feature on spiritual direction included an annotated book list, which I compiled based on recommendations from three professors in the discipline.

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New today from the Century.

If my pastor got up some Sunday and said, "I am not a pastor. I'm just a regular person," I'd respond like this: "Well, we hired you to be a pastor, and if you have a problem with it you should find another line of work."

The gospel is the good news that Christ's death and resurrection--mediated through scripture, tradition, and the sacraments of the church--offers new life for all who embrace it.

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These seven books offer help in thinking about the structure and content of clergy peer groups.

At age 29 I cried out to an empty universe in the first authentic prayer of my life: "God, if you are, I need help!" The help came in ways I couldn't imagine.

Here's a separate top-ten list of just our paid content--i.e., the most popular articles of the year that were read online only by Century subscribers.

Birth is a messy, painful affair, fraught with risk and danger. Yet Jesus was born.

Here are the Century's most-viewed blog posts of the year. Thanks for reading.

Here are the Century magazine articles that were most popular online this year. Thanks for reading.

God's all-encompassing love enters the world in the person of Jesus Christ, through the power of the Spirit.