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In All Things
I stumbled upon this Washington Post series of photos of a Colorado family being evicted H T to Greg Kandra s The Deacon s Bench and have not been able to stop thinking about this family and what they are going through a tragedy being replicated at thousands of sites around the country I don t k
In All Things
I have been both astonished and moved by the tremendous outpouring of emotion over the death of Steve Jobs at age 56 nbsp Mr Jobs as is known by anyone whose fingers ever touched a computer or held an iPhone was a dazzlingly talented innovator who as President Obama noted will likely rank am
In All Things
Just posted to our Web site a call for the canonication of Pope John Paul I nbsp On the Third Sunday of Easter Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed John Paul II a blessed a milestone in the late pope rsquo s journey to sainthood The speed at which Karol Wojtyla rsquo s cause for canonization has progr
In All Things
Cambridge MA As promised this is a brief follow-up on the visit of the Sultan of Sokoto the spiritual leader of some 80 000 000 Muslims in Nigeria and the surrounding area to Harvard on October 2-3 Harvard sees many many dignitaries visit campus and so the arrangements seemed rather smooth
In All Things
In the battle over immigration words such as illegals are used frequently in an attempt to dehumanize the millions of people who live and work in this country without proper documentation By turning individual human beings into objects in this case dark scary and unlawful things opponent
In All Things
In October we reflect upon ways to promote our commitment to the pro-life cause Last week s Gospel message encouraged us to be good stewards of the Vineyard that is entrusted to us Perhaps metaphorically we are reminded of our brothers and sisters who enter this world with mental retardation or o
In All Things
Steve Jobs had a remarkable life An adopted child his biological sister incredibly is the novelist Mona Simpson college drop-out and Arab American he created perhaps the greatest comeback story in American corporate history Before he became a visionary whose fine taste and ruthless perfectio
The Good Word
Jesus was praying in a certain place and when he had finished one of his disciples said to him Lord teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples He said to them When you pray say Father hallowed be your name your Kingdom come Give us each day our daily breadand forgive us our sinsfor
The Good Word
Profound insights into human life often come when a novelist offers us a scene that is initially hard to imagine at least until we rsquo ve entered it through the writer rsquo s craft Then it suddenly seems patent and true And when the author is a great one the gospel itself is proclaimed beca
In All Things
One of the pleasures of my job is combing through America s archives It is especially interesting to read the editors analyses of political events What continues to surprise me is the breadth of the subjects they wrote about That and the sharpness of their opinions mdash these gentlemen did not
In All Things
From Criterio magazine via Mirada Global Cuba has lived a long period of shortages and economic difficulties First it was the blockade which was tempered by the era of collaboration with the socialist world Then came a special period after the fall of the socialist bloc up until the alliance wi
In All Things
On this Feast of St Francis Faith Hope and Love the blog of CatholicMatch com offers an interesting look at single Catholic pet owners From a member survey CatholicMatch com learned that 62 percent of single Catholics own a pet and Christina Ries the blog s editor says that this statis
In All Things
Today is the Feast of St Francis of Assisi and I m happy to say the publication date of my book on joy humor and laughter Between Heaven and Mirth nbsp To celebrate both an excerpt on the joy of St Francis nbsp And that s him on the cover holding the turtledoves and laughing nbsp in betw
In All Things
There is something very sad mdash or perhaps I should say obscene mdash about the President of the United States standing before the press corps and personally taking credit for another death It is as if he was bragging about a basketball score after his side had won Worse by rubbing out Anwat-al
Books
The innermost core of the religious education problem is the why.
Ideas
Mary Karr’s gritty stories of sin and salvation show us that grace is not always graceful.
Signs Of the Times
In 2010, 15.1 percent of Americans—46.2 million people, an all-time high—were living in poverty.
Signs Of the Times
The U.S. bishops have asked preists to address “the terrible toll the current economic turmoil is taking on families and communities.”