Taking Part in the Body Cynthia Reville Peabody’s article, “Staying Power” (7/18), found me asking myself once again, why do I stay in the Catholic Church? My answer to this question is, quite simply, the Eucharist. Coming together as the body of Christ, we women in the pews give t

Mike Ovey Principal of Oak Hill College in England wrote on the rioting in London and elsewhere in England a few days ago the piece itself does not bear a date nbsp Ovey warns against treating the rioters as the ldquo other rdquo which he accuses both liberals and conservatives on the polit

What happens when God truly does something new in our midst The readings nbsp for the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time give us a glimpse of how the extraordinary manifests itself in day to day life and events though we might not think it extraordinary any longer We have lost the sense of wonder

Maps have border lines The earth itself does not Human life demands drawing boundaries but God rsquo s life knows none While we live we constantly claim what we consider to be our own and we define ourselves both by who we are mdash and who we are not If religion were entirely divinely w

Maps have border lines The earth itself does not Human life demands drawing boundaries but God rsquo s life knows none While we live we constantly claim what we consider to be our own and we define ourselves both by who we are mdash and who we are not If religion were entirely divinely wrough

You may see a second collection this weekend at your parish to raise money to respond to the famine in Somalia but if you are looking for a way to pitch in before then Catholic News Service put together a handy list of relief agencies which I am posting below The following international aid agenc

Our own Father Jim Martin was on call last night at his other job as chaplain to the Colbert Nation Father Martin tried gamely once again to explain matters spiritual to Colbert but it remains unclear how much is getting through See for yourself below

On occasion I offer reviews of books which I believe have some popular appeal for a wider audience These reviews tend to be lengthier and more academic than regular posts Sarah Ruden rsquo s book Paul Among the People The Apostle Reinterpreted and Reimagined in His Own Time New York Image Boo

Monday night on the Daily Show Jon Stewart described the collapse in the stock market investment in favor of U S Treasury bonds as akin to a guy torching your house and then asking if he can store his cash in your basement nbsp There rsquo s also something of Heisenberg rsquo s Uncertainty Princ

A very disturbing article from the upcoming issue of the New York Times magazine As Jenny lay on the obstetrician rsquo s examination table she was grateful that the ultrasound tech had turned off the overhead screen She didn rsquo t want to see the two shadows floating inside her Since making h

Just posted to our Web site Margot Patterson on the threat of sectarian conflict in Syria With protesters calling for the downfall of the Assad regime religious minorities are nervous of what will follow should the regime fall mdash and what kind of treatment they will receive in the inter

Catholic Relief Services is launching a special appeal to deal with the escalating famine crisis in the Horn of Africa The agnecy released a press release today that includes a request from U S C C B president and N Y nbsp Archbishop Timothy M Dolan and Bishop Gerald F Kicanas chairman of the

Last week I threw out my files on Osama Bin Laden rsquo s death mdash which I am more prone to call a murder or an assassination mdash because new and perhaps bigger questions keep leaping up at us and I have to make room in both my head and in my files and desk space for new problems But Nic

Last week I threw out my files on Osama Bin Laden rsquo s death mdash which I am more prone to call a murder or an assassination mdash because new and perhaps bigger questions keep leaping up at us and I have to make room in both my head and in my files and desk space for new problems

nbsp From my living room window I see the flag waving in the VFW park above the nbsp monument honoring the war dead nbsp On Memorial Day we hear the rifles shots followed by taps nbsp In the same park our local peace group meets regularly to protests against our country rsquo s current wars I

From the Jesuit magazine Streven via Mirada Global Over recent decades it has become clear that women play important roles in the use and management of natural resources They are usually the ones responsible for the provision of water and biomass energy for the household It seems logical that the

A study released today by the Pew Research Center rsquo s Forum on Religion amp Public Life reports that more than 2 2 billion people nearly a third of the world rsquo s total population live in countries where either government restrictions on religion or ldquo social hostilities involving rel