Christ the King Nov 23 2008 The Roman Emperor Constantine was baptized in 337 He put it off for years In the early Church Christians could only confess their sins once in their lives so Constantine remained a catechumen until he was nearing the end Despite what The Da Vinci Code says when h

Because I m tired of being made to feel like an idiot was the reason a woman friend of Tablet correspondent Clifford Longley gave for no longer attending Mass One hears variations on this sentiment with such regularity among thoughtful Catholics that the temptation is to coin a further beatitud

President-elect Barack Obama s Nov 16 statement that we ve got to shore up our efforts in Afghanistan should be a finalist for understatement of the month According to news reports attacks against coalition forces along Afghanistan s northeast border with Pakistan have surged in recent

President-elect Barack Obama has tapped Tom Daschle to become Secretary of Health and Human Services a selection that is due chiefly to Daschle rsquo s expertise in health care and his intimate knowledge of Congress and its ways The Secretary of HHS alas also oversees policies that treat abortio

The sneering video letter nbsp issued by Al Qaeda s No 2 proves if nothing else that the Islamist terror network is running scared of Barack Obama And so they should be Obama s commitment to withdraw troops from Iraq and focus them on Afghanistan smashes the central Al-Qaeda thesis that the

Yes Advent nbsp I wanted to be the first to say that word on our blog at least this year nbsp You may already know Fr Robert Barron professor of systematic nbsp theology at Mundelein Seminary in Chicago popular speaker and author of many books my favorite is The Strangest Way nbsp S

Yesterday the Vatican appointed a new auxiliary for Washington D C forty-five year old Bishop-elect Barry Knestout This is a big feather in the cap of D C rsquo s Archbishop Donald Wuerl Getting such a young auxiliary through Rome rsquo s sometimes arcane appointment process is not easy Wuerl

Spooky I suggest in this blog that the Archbishop of Canterbury take bishops to Lourdes -- and then he does Then a few weeks ago I come up with something called CathPod only to learn now that nbsp about that time an application called iBreviary was being launched Report in Italian here nbsp

CCHD the Catholic Campaign for Human Development has been under attack lately--unfairly nbsp David Gibson nbsp sets the record straight in an online piece for America here Gibson nbsp In nbsp a denunciation that America blogger Austen Ivereigh declared ldquo manifestly unjust rdquo Fat

Jesus and his disciples return to Jerusalem after a night in Bethany Ascending a staircase about 3 stories high Jesus stepped onto the Temple platform the religious political economic psychological center of Israel and of Judaism a four-cornered area about the size of a soccer field with th

Every scrap of Scripture in today s liturgy contributes to making two points actually one blended assertion The Lamb is slain and God did not intervene to stop that scandalous deed And God s flock suffers at the hands of shepherds who abuse it and profit from that abuse and though God does

On Sunday last I had a conversation with a devout Catholic woman 16 years of Catholic schooling niece of a revered deceased Jesuit of the California province nurse at a Veterans Administration hospital communion minister at her parish who was hopping mad at the California bishops for funding a

This surprising story reported by nbsp AP just came across our desk nbsp nbsp A snip The Roman Catholic archbishop of San Salvador opposes reopening the prosecution of Salvadoran officials in the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests the cleric said Sunday nbsp Human rights activists have pu

There are many reasons to admire Abraham Lincoln His ability to bring former political rivals into the Cabinet and to manage their ambitions was one of his most remarkable political accomplishments Whether Lincoln merely wanted to keep his enemies closer than his friends or whether he saw unique p

Here s an editorial from the LA Times on the Vatican s new directive on psychological screening of gay candidates for the priesthood nbsp And before you object to the nbsp idea of a secular paper editorializing on church affairs remember that were it not for The Boston Globe the church would

Dear Prelates and Priests I have a suggestion about how to deal with the election of Barack Obama Keep still and be quiet Father Jay Scott Newman of St Mary rsquo s in Greenville South Carolina was all over the news for suggesting that parishioners who voted for Obama needed to go to confession

Do ntilde a Teresa de Ahumada y Cepeda who became simply Teresa de Jes uacute s following her midlife conversion had a personality so large and intriguing that it is no surprise that a novelist has chosen this Spanish Carmelite as a character around whom to weave a fictionalized story Yet histori