Sr. Talone is vice president, mission services, Catholic Health Association, St. Louis. esus works miracles in Catholic health care. He continues to work miracles every day through the faith, commitment, skills and dedication of women and men committed to his healing ministry. At a program jointly sponsored by the Catholic Health Association and the Center for Health Care Governance titled, "Ho...

A fifth-century handbook on Scripture and its interpretation, Adrian’s Isagōgē in sacras scripturas, is the only known extant introductio Greek which represents Antiochean exegetical tradition. This treatise, available two recensions, largely an explanation of stylistic idiosyncrasies Scripture’s God-talk. Although Adrian acknowledges fact that uses allegory to say various things (i.e., composi...

This article investigates whether the canon of Christian Holy Scripture is properly understood as a gift and, if so, what theological implications this might entail. Following introduction, has three main sections. The first section proposes an expanded grammar by which to describe production and reception in church, under superintending sovereignty divine will action. second offers guide recen...

The path from the "then" of biblical exegesis to the "now" of biblical preaching always proceeds between borders. On one side are the times, on the other, timeless principles. The contemporary preacher must negotiate the path so as to bring the truly universal teaching of Scripture to bear on conditions similar in some significant ways to those addressed in Scripture. The path is strewn with de...

RNA-Seq is a powerful tool for the annotation of genomes, in particular for the identification of isoforms and UTRs. Nevertheless, several software tools exist and no standard strategy to obtain a reliable annotation is yet established. We tested different combinations of the most commonly used reference-based alignment tools (TopHat, GSNAP) in combination with two frequently used reference-bas...