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Thomas P Sweetser S J has written a readable helpful follow-up to his The Parish as Covenant Keeping the Covenant Taking Parish to the Next Level builds on his foundational theology and spirituality of parish as articulated in the previous book but adds to that vision many new practical ste

Tom Hooper the director of the new HBO miniseries John Adams is in love with his subject at least as much as David McCullough showed himself to be in his bestselling book of the same title Not a scene of the seven-part miniseries debuting tonight on HBO takes place without Adams or his wi

I m not sure what I like the most the name of the website gloria tv their in-your-face slogan the more catholic the better their spokesnun she with the arbitrary binoculars the impressively multilingual comments Bei so sch nem Gesang wird die Fastenzeit richtig s or the mus

Paul s Hymn to Christ the most common title given to Philippians 2 6-11 is one of the most popular passages in the Pauline corpus with good reason and one of his most scrutinized passages as well To my mind it encapsulates Jesus Incarnation and Passion more powerfully than any other short

The martyrdom of Catholic Chaldean archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho reminds America that the war in Iraq is far from over Indeed yesterday a car bomb also killed 17 civilians in downtown Baghdad Earlier in the week five U S soldiers were killed while on patrol The surge had indeed lessened vi

There have been spades of media reports this Lent about other Christian denominations in the United States taking on and adapting traditionally Catholic devotions and Lenten practices as a young single friend of mine recently said gone are the days when Ash Wednesday at work could double for twent

News has come of the murder of the Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul Paulos Faraj Rahho who had been kidnapped The Associated Press has this story AP And Catholic News Service is running this interview with an American-based Chaldean bishop who lays some of the blame for the outcome on the

One of the better blogs on things religious is Therese Borchard s Beyond Blue hosted by Beliefnet com Nominally it is about the topic of depression which Borchard had suffered from and also discussed in last week s America article Shadows in Prayer Shadows More broadly it i

Christ the Lord The Road to Cana Anne Rice s new novel received if not a rave review then a very positive one in The New York Times this morning Times review The book is a follow-up to Christ the Lord Out of Egypt her bestselling novel about the birth and childhood of Jesus That fi

Geraldine Ferraro commented that Barack Obama has attained the heights of his political success only because he is black. The comment made me sick to my stomach.

This week s New Yorker includes an excellent letter from three of Bishop Paul Moore s children responding to their sister s article outing their father in the March 3 issue I also found Honor Moore s article distasteful a few scenes felt too choreographed almost as if they were played

Last night Barack Obama scored another big win in a small state beating Hillary Clinton by 61 to 37 and netting 3 delegates more delegates than the former first lady By way of comparison in Ohio last week Clinton netted 9 more delegates than Obama His margin in the popular vote almost 97 00