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Security Stepped Up for Christians in Mosul Increased security aimed at preventing further attacks on Christians in the Iraqi city of Mosul might have come too late to halt an exodus of refugees, said an Iraqi archbishop. The Iraqi government has deployed extra police on the streets of the northern

Mark has divided his work literarily now into three units each headed by Jesus prophecy that he will be killed and will rise from the dead In the first literary unit these is the Transfiguration story which we spoke of in no 27 There are two more stories to hear now The first has to do w

Marx s Capital is back on the bookshelves in Germany -- but the Marx in question is a Catholic bishop And while his book is a response to the crisis of capitalism the revolution he is calling for has more to do with Rerum Novarum 1891 than Das Kapital 1867 nbsp You ve got to hand it to th

One of the best aces in the hole for the Republican party has been their Get-Out-The-Vote GOTV operation In 2004 I was working on a congressional race and the final weekend an independent poll had the race tied but we lost by 8 points because the GOP deployed their famed 72-hour plan Karl Rove

We notice now that Mark records three predictions by Jesus of his passion death and resurrection 8 31 9 31 10 33-34 From a literary point of view each of these three predictions serves as a heading for the stories which follow it That is each of the stories in each of the three groupin

In 2004 a grassroots organization in Ohio called ldquo Catholics for Kerry rdquo asked the campaign to send a surrogate to one of their events They were told ldquo We don rsquo t do white churches rdquo Turns out if you ldquo don rsquo t do white churches rdquo you also don rsquo t get to

Cambridge MA In last week rsquo s entry to this column I explained how I attempted to write a piece for the Sunday New York Times rsquo Modern Love section on loving God I explained that I thought that we should be able to speak of loving God in a modern accessible way My piece was not accep

Here s a fun video courtesy of Bustedhalo com on the saints and Halloween nbsp Special credit goes to exec producer Mike Hayes Bill McGarvey and Jarrad Venegas for showing how nbsp Catholic history and tradition can be made--dare I say--lighthearted with some cool video techniques nbsp And

From CNS Friend of murdered Jesuits in Moscow expresses shock over deaths By Regina Linskey Catholic News Service WASHINGTON CNS -- A Chilean priest who was friends with the two Jesuits murdered in Moscow expressed sadness and shock over their deaths Everything is so weird Jesuit Father Tom

From the Press Office of the Jesuit Curia in Rome this morning nbsp Two Jesuits Fathers Otto Messmer and Victor Betancourt killed in Moscow On Saturday 25 October Father Victor Betancourt an Ecuadorian Jesuit working in the St Thomas Philosophical Theological and Historical Institute in M

Is it over Of course not A single dreadful news cycle could still turn the race quickly back towards McCain But the numbers are daunting to say the least The first problem for McCain is that virtually every competitive swing state is a state that George W Bush carried last election Put diffe

I was reminded at mass last evening that yesterday Monday was the 50th anniversary of the election of Pope John XXIII and also the 50th anniversary of the death of Fr Wilfrid Parsons SJ editor in chief of America Magazine from 1925-1936 nbsp Parsons was very involved with the creation of the

With the announcement of Jesus death comes the serious news that Jesus disciple must be ready to carry his own cross and follow Jesus It is particularly for this news that Mark writes his Gospel He struggles to clarify the identity of Jesus now revealed as one destined to be killed but t