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How Catholics can overcome partisan divisions
Signs Of the Times
Catholic Relief Services said that its decision to allocate funding to the humanitarian organization CARE under a U.S. grant did not violate Catholic teaching.
Signs Of the Times
One of Peru’s top Catholic universities will continue to call itself Catholic and pontifical, despite a Vatican decree aiming to strip the titles.
In All Things
Cambridge MA Today s New York Times article on the St Louis meeting of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious highlights the mature and peaceful tone of the sisters rsquo closing statement It seems to seek a dialogue on the matters under debate a dialogue of equals that premises the dign
In All Things
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious after an historic meeting this week in St nbsp Louis nbsp in response to the Vatican s Doctrinal Assessment has issued an official nbsp press release outlining their response nbsp The members charged the LCWR officers with beginning a conversation w
In All Things
It is refreshing to read the economic analysis of Bruce Bartlett a Republican who has worked for Presidents Reagan and George H W Bush as well as for Jack Kemp and Ron Paul In a recent column NYT 8 5 12 ldquo The Clinton Tax Challenge for Republicans rdquo Bartlett compares the results of G
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The Romney campaign has insinuated for months that President Obama is hostile toward religion but they appear to be finished with mincing words A new ad titled Be Not Afraid says that Obama has declared a ldquo war on religion rdquo and uses images and words of Pope John Paul II Watch the ad
In All Things
nbsp Catholics in the US hold their parish priests and religious women in high esteem and don rsquo t feel too badly about the Pope andUS bishops either according to a newly released poll by the Pew Forum Embattled religious sisters can take heart that 83 of US Catholics are satisfied with th
The Good Word
St Ignatius of Loyola suggested that we read scripture by picturing ourselves in its scenes nbsp It rsquo s a fruitful insight because God rsquo s word aims to accomplish more than just communicating information nbsp It seeks to transform us nbsp But who can picture him or herself praying wi
In All Things
On August 9 every year the church celebrates the martyrdom of the Carmelite Sister Teresia Benedicta of the Cross Edith Stein who was gassed at Auschwitz that day seventy years ago I put the term martyrdom in quotations since Edith Stein was murdered by the Nazis for being Jewish and on
In All Things
Here is a preview of a nbsp interesting new study on women religious sponsored by two prestigious Catholic organizations that shows--contrary to popular opinion and despite what a great many commentator have said--that almost equal numbers of women are entering both more traditional and progre
In All Things
nbsp Sixty seven years ago on August 6th the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and killed at least 166 000 people nbsp On August 9 a second nuclear bomb was deployed on Nagasaki and destroyed 80 000 more nbsp At this news I as a 12 year old patriotic daughter in a military fam
In All Things
ldquo No wireless I rsquo m calling the realtor rdquo Those were my first words when we entered the beach house we had rented last week How would I do all the work I had brought with me How would I read news watch videos and upload blog posts What about all the online sales Groupondeals
In All Things
ldquo No wireless I rsquo m calling the realtor rdquo Those were my first words when we entered the beach house we had rented last week How would I do all the work I had brought with me How would I read news watch videos and upload blog posts What about all the online sales Groupondeals
In All Things
Peace to you and welcome to my first post for In All Things where I will be writing about ecological concerns My name is Elizabeth Groppe and I am a teacher of theology at Xavier University a Jesuit school nestled in the rolling hills of the Ohio River Valley I am also the mother of an exuber
In All Things
Watching the Olympics this week If you tune into the men rsquo s 800-meter track final on Thursday pay attention to Kenya rsquo s David nbsp Rudisha the current world record holder and favorite to win gold Rudisha rsquo s coach happens to be a Catholic priest originally from Ireland who rsquo
In All Things
Melbourne My weeks in Melbourne are drawing to a close and if you read my first and second entries you will know that it has been a good and interesting sojourn for me The weather has continued to be sunny and warm 60 degrees in recent days definitely a good model for winter A strand of my v