File this under the Really column nbsp David Gibson over at Politics Daily reports President Obama s surprising devotion to Mary Help of Christians nbsp Somehow this slipped past the Disputations filter but during her vacation in Spain in August First Lady Michelle Obama revealed that her

Finding useful objects strewn about on the sidewalks and streets of New York--surely one of the most waste-prone cities in the nation--happens frequently as I move about between home and work I have lived in other big cities but either the residents there are less wasteful or else their sanitati

If you enjoy taking a quiz now and then and would like to see how you compare with other Americans on your knowledge of just six ldquo religion and American life rdquo questions take the self-test offered on the New York Time rsquo s Web site The test is an interactive feature that accompanies a

The nbsp editors of The New York Times nbsp evince something of nbsp a fascination for Matteo Ricci the great Jesuit missionary to China nbsp As well nbsp they nbsp should nbsp nbsp The Italian Jesuit 1552-1610 was nbsp fascinating man living in a fascinating era who did fascinating things n

Unless you have been on the moon or in a prison cellar during the past month you have seen or read something about John Henry Cardinal Newman one of the great 19th century intellectuals of the English church and the man for whom Pope Benedict XVI traveled last week to England to declare ldq

It s always nbsp interesting nbsp seeing a non-Christian or non-Catholic person group or organization discovering the wisdom of our tradition-- unbeknownst to them nbsp A few years ago I met a man not a Catholic who told me that he had stumbled upon a fascinating new nbsp idea in a corporate r