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The Good Word
Garrison Keillor rsquo s A Christmas Blizzard lies within the tradition of Charles Dickens rsquo s A Christmas Carol the metamorphosis is something of a miracle nbsp Here rsquo s how its protagonist James Sparrow a wealthy Chicago CEO learns that he will be spending Christmas a holiday he rea
In All Things
From editor in chief Drew Christiansen S J writing for the Washington Post s On Faith blog If as common sense tells us we should learn from our mistakes Americans have many lessons to draw from our nine-year military engagement in Iraq Here are three Beware politicians employing intellig
In All Things
Cambridge MA I promised in my previous entry on the baby Jesus seen through Hindu eyes that I would return again this week to the theme of the newborn Christ seen and contemplated in light of insights drawn from the Indian Hindu context As I mentioned there we do not in some absolute sense ld
In All Things
Trinity Wall Street one of NY s largest landlords has been described as a real estate company with an altar The church and the OWS movement evicted from the public space at Zuccotti Park have become embroiled in a fight over some unoccupied space owned by Trinity near Wall Street that shows n
In All Things
Czech President Vaclav Havel is being remembered as a revolutionary and an artist an accidental political leader during a period of rapid change He is also being remembered by some as a spiritual seeker who understood that man and a healthy social order do not live by the bread of democracy alone
In All Things
Fans of Michael Morpurgo s popular book War Horse and the successful Broadway adaptation of the same name have been wondering how nbsp or whether director Steven Spielberg would translate the unique prose of the book it s narrated by a horse and the vision of the play the horses are nbsp play
In All Things
From Catholic News Service news of papal approval of upcoming canonizations and beatifications including two from the United States a Jesuit and a Jesuit colleague VATICAN CITY CNS -- Pope Benedict XVI advanced the sainthood causes of Blessed Marianne Cope of Molokai and Blessed Kateri Tekakwi
In All Things
ldquo Global Christianity A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World rsquo s Christian Population rdquo has just been published by the Pew Research Center rsquo s Forum on Religion amp Public Life The report locates Christian populations around the world and compares them with other re
In All Things
As the media have reported the last few weeks there has been tension between many in Occupy Wall Street as well a good number of religious leaders in Occupy Faith NYC on the one hand and Trinity Wall Street on the other Trinity is a venerable Episcopal church at the end of Wall Street in lower
In All Things
I finagled an invitation from Governor Jerry Brown we had known one another in high school and for the brief time he was a Jesuit seminarian to attend his by invitation only conference on extreme climate risks and California s future held Dec 15th at the Academy of Science San Francisco The
Signs Of the Times
The Rhode Island governor's decision “to avoid the word Christmas” in an invitation to a “holiday tree lighting” ceremony “is most disheartening and divisive,” said Bishop Thomas Tobin.
Art
A new survey of Christian art and architecture in Europe from its beginnings in the catacombs to the present day.
Signs Of the Times
Kinshasa Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo challenges election results in Democratoc Republic of Congo.
Signs Of the Times
There is no safe nuclear power despite a government’s assurance of safe nuclear energy, a visiting Japanese nuclear expert said in a lecture at the Catholic Center in Tokyo.
Signs Of the Times
Hundreds of thousands of Coptic Christians have emigrated since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak in 2011.