Michelle Bachmann s former church the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod WELS has officially weighed in on the recent controversy surrounding their teaching that the pope is the Antichrist The church s president Rev Mark Schroeder writes WELS holds to the historic Lutheran position that th

While everyone s attention is focused on the debt ceiling debate another controversial matter may be overlooked Over at NCR Steve Schneck of Catholic University lays out the details of a new set of health care regulations due to be released next week On Aug 1 Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is s

In preparation for the Feast of St Ignatius Loyola on July 31 a video meditation on the life and spiritual legacy of the founder of the Society of Jesus Who Cares About the Saints Ignatius from Loyola Productions on Vimeo

Benedict XVI nbsp devoted much of his encyclical Caritas in Veritate to issues of globalization including the observation that ldquo the global context in which work takes place also demands that national labour unions which tend to limit themselves to defending the interests of their registered

Employers often request a wide range of skills from job applicants But in the midst of a troubled economy in which more than 14 million people are unemployed many companies are adding one extra qualification to that list having a job nbsp At a time when there are far more applicants than there

The report that Archbishop Pietro Sambi the apostolic nuncio to the United States died from complications after lung surgery Wednesday July 27 was sad news indeed A large towering man with a booming voice he was an exceptionally bold diplomat Once when the tour bus carrying U S bishops from

President Obama rsquo s 2009 state of the union speech addressed higher education as a universal vocation if not a duty of all citizens Three years later reports show a loss of value with the bachelor degree and a growing interest in the master degree Law schools and MBA programs are bursting at

Sad news from Washington D C Archbishop Sambi was the Vatican s ambassador to the United States and a friend of the magazine Archbishop Pietro Sambi the papal ambassador to the United States since 2005 died Wednesday night apparently from complications related to lung surgery according to Vati

Historian David McCullough rsquo s newest offering The Greater Journey Americans in Paris includes a roadside stop between harbor and metropolis in Rouen to see its cathedral He writes The Americans had never beheld anything remotely comparable It was their first encounter with a Gothic ma

Watching this whole debt ceiling spectacle is a trial for me I want to tell the Republicans ldquo Stop playing games that stymie every Democratic offer and initiative and do your patriotic duty compromise for the good of the nation rdquo And I want to tell the Democrats ldquo Don rsquo t giv

A meditation on the mosaic of Sts Joachim and Anne--traditionally Mary s parents--by Marko Rupnik SJ which graces the nbsp Chapel at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut nbsp This meditation nbsp ran in our Christmas issue last year nbsp nbsp This is perhaps the most unexpected part of th

The public image of the American Catholic hierarchy has taken quite a beating in recent years The general public holds them responsible for mishandling the sexual abuse crisis and more progressive lay Catholics resent what they see as the hierarchy rsquo s selective intrusion into elective

Army Staff Sgt Wyatt A Goldsmith 28 died Friday July 15 at Camp Bastion Hospital from injuries suffered during an attack in Afghanistan by insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades A Medic he was attending to the wounds of an allied Afghan commando when he was wounded Wyatt was on his thi

Like many of our readers I suspect I turn immediately to the letters page when I open up a magazine or newspaper Two recent letters on two different articles stood out this week and I think they re worth highlighting here The first is in response to Bill Keller s review of Absolute Monarchs A

Texas Governor Rick Perry has been in the news with some frequency of late A good deal of the coverage has centered on his support of a national day of prayer The Response USA which will invoke God s help in restoring moral purpose to the United States nbsp Incidentally this is an event w

The United States has been a major exporter of popular culture for decades We see ourselves as well as an exporter of democracy And the recent hopes expressed by young people of many nations shows that democracy or at least self-government in some form is an aspirational or inspirational export

Cambridge MA I am grateful to John Coleman for his recent ldquo A Code of Conduct for Conversion rdquo in which he calls to the attention of In All Things readers the recent ecumenical document ldquo Christian Witness in a Multi-Religious World rdquo His excellent piece gives the history of