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In All Things
LONDON Last night there were more buildings aflame in the city than at any time since World War II Some 6 000 police were unable to cope as across the capital -- and in other cities in the UK -- gangs of hooded youths took to the streets in copycat riots torching and looting in the third night o
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After declining to recant his very public support for women s ordination Father Roy Bourgeois has been dismissed by the Maryknolls The N Y Times reports that he was notified via a letter signed by the superior general and the general secretary of the Maryknoll order in the United States which sa
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Public discussion of a new study by the Pew Research Center titled ldquo Twenty to One rdquo has focused on the report rsquo s main finding that the Great Recession has resulted in record highs in wealth disparity in the U S especially among Latinos and blacks in comparison with whites The rep
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Maryland s Governor Martin O Malley and Baltimore s Archbishop Edwin O Brien were publicly at odds over O Malley s support of same-sex marriage earlier this summer and The Washington Post reports on private letters between the two that are now public ldquo I have concluded that discriminating aga
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CNS offers some interesting results from a new poll WASHINGTON CNS -- American Muslims are more optimistic about their future than people of other religions are about their own though Muslims say they regularly contend with suspicion and lack of respect for their faith A decade after the Sept
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Texas governor and increasingly likely Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry helped to create and promote a stadium-sized praise and worship service held this weekend in Texas called The Response nbsp Watch the promotional video which stylistically bears a striking resemblance to a scary
The Good Word
God speaks in many ways but if you want to hear him you need to be prepared to listen nbsp In 1 Kings 19 12 following wind earthquake and fire ndash which is the name of a 70s band I believe ndash Elijah hears a ldquo sound of sheer silence rdquo NRSV or ldquo a tiny whispering sound
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Reports out of the Horn of Africa could not be much worse Three new regions of Somalia are officially in famine conditions this is the first such UN declaration of famine in decades Thousands have aleady died and are dying as you read these words refugees fleeing the famine continue to seek aid
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The dog days of summer are being accompanied by howls of pain today from investors Decisively contradicting predictions that the end of the tragic-comic debt ceiling ldquo debate rdquo in Washington would lead to a market revival all major U S indexes indeed indexes around the world began a s
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The Catholic Health Association has joined the discussion regarding new guidelines issued by the Department of Health and Human Services that require among other uncontroversial preventive service additions new health care plans after August 2012 to include FDA-approved contraception methods and c
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Check out nbsp the comprehensive nbsp programs the Jesuits are sponsoring for nbsp pilgrims to World Youth Day this year in Madrid nbsp Having Loyola nearby is certainly a boon nbsp The Society of Jesus along with other religious institutions and laypeople throughout the world who follow Ign
The Good Word
Biblical scholars especially but all of us in general are sometimes tempted to think of reading and interpreting the Bible as a solitary enterprise Scholars have no excuse for this egotism as they should recognize that they are constantly standing on the shoulders of others some giants and some
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The traffic inside Central Park is snarling these days nbsp There are accidents and shouting matches around near accidents yet there are no cars There are hundreds and hundreds of men and women running biking and roller blading in all different directions nbsp It is amazing to see just how m
FaithIn All Things
What do you do when your education, at James Gillespie’s High School for Girls, only equips you to teach secondary English or to work in a department store, and yet you’re educated enough to feel the lugubrious weight of Edinburgh skies? If you’re Muriel Camberg, you take the first ticket out of Scotland, even if that means moving to Rhodesia as the wife of Sidney Oswald Spark, who later turns out to be a manic depressive, prone to violent outbursts. Having exchanged dark skies for wild savannah winds, and now the mother of a child, where do you find safety from the storm?
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Jack McKeon is an inspiration not only because he s 80 years old and managing the Florida Marlins but because he s not afraid to show his deep Catholic faith The New York Times wrote a lovely and refreshing piece about him which included stories of McKeon assisting his colleagues in their own fa
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I have read both of Cardinal George rsquo s recent interviews twice plus the handful of comments which followed with high hopes and I must confess that I am puzzled by his reputation as David Gibson and others describe him as one of the hierarchy rsquo s ldquo leading intellectuals rdquo For
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The number of women attending church services is dropping according to a study from The Barna Group Among the findings No population group among the sixty segments examined has gone through more spiritual changes in the past two decades than women Of the 14 religious factors studied women ha
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In the United States when clergy urge their congregations to vote for or against a particular law or candidate the federal government typically has this concern Have the clergy as leaders of tax-exempt religious groups overstepped the legal bounds that qualify them and their churches for tax exem
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Last month our editor Fr Drew Christiansen traveled to Lambeth Palace to take part in a conference sponsored by the archbishops of Canterbury and Westminster aimed at supporting the Christian community in the Holy Land You can read our report on the conference here Now Religion and Ethics newsl