Just back from the Catholic Theological Society of America s convention in San Jose where on the first night the bishop of the local diocese Patrick J McGrath before the entire membership noted that in the past all the best theologians were bishops but that was a long time ago nbsp He the

UPDATE 13 June 2011 The links below are now fixed-- I m taking a break from the goings-on at the Annual Convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America with our characteristic intense wash of theologizing and the even more important rejoining of long-term friendships which is where

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Some may just easily chuckle and say that it could only happen in San Francisco Yet there were efforts to ban circumcision in Santa Monica and a group entitled The Association for Genital Integrity recently proposed a circumcision ban in Canada it failed There

A few days ago I went with my friend B on a walking tour of NYC rock sites in lower Manhattan The tour was sponsored by Rocks Off and was led by concert promoter and musician Jake Szufnarowski a deeply knowledgeable and friendly guide to all things rock and roll We met at Union Square Park ne

The Jesuits in Syria have issued a statement on the difficult conditions there calling for all parties to reject violence and imploring national unity dialogue and freedom of expression nbsp The Syrian Jesuits appear concerned that the political struggle in Syria is on the verge of disintegrating

With apologies to the writers of ldquo Late Night with David Letterman rdquo Right now is not an easy time to be Catholic But is it ever easy I sometimes speculate that it might be simpler to be Protestant Protestants are allowed to go church shopping and they don rsquo t even have to go to a

From Criterio magazine via Mirada Global From the first day of the year Brazil has started to go through a completely different experience having a woman president for the first time President Dilma Roussef starts the lineage of women presidents in Brazil And this entails hopes and challenges f

You can tell that the earliest Christians were inspired and not just because Pentecost was about to fall upon them you can tell they were inspired because of their nicknames Some of these were given by Jesus himself Peter for Simon and Sons of Thunder for James and John jump immediately to m

Check out the Saving Seeds episode of American Public Media s The Story Right now all over the world projects are underway to store seeds Biodiversity has plummeted in the last 50 years and scientists fear the effects of climate change They worry we will lose varieties of apples yams and ma

Deposed President Manuel Mel Zelaya returned to Honduras on Saturday May 28 see Al Jazeera report almost two years after he was first removed from power by Honduran security forces and flown into exile Zelaya was greeted by thousands of red-shirted supporters at the Tegucigalpa airport By so

To keep the Web site lively over the summer months we will be featuring biweekly podcast discussions with the editors We ll be talking about a range of items just like we do here at In All Things This week Tim Reidy Fr Jim Martin and Regina Nigro talk about the weighty themes addressed in

Check out Jeffrey Eugenides engaging new short story nbsp Asleep nbsp in the Lord nbsp in this week rsquo s New Yorker nbsp Or don rsquo t check it out nbsp since it rsquo s hidden behind a subscriber wall just go out and buy the mag nbsp It rsquo s nbsp the story of nbsp Mitchell a you

A while back I wrote a piece highlighting the resonance Lady Gaga s message of radical inclusivity has with young people and what the church might take from that Now The Economist compares the remarkable branding success of Lady Gaga and Mother Theresa From the post It is not just that early i

Elizabeth Johnson CSJ has finally responded at length to the public critique of her book Quest for the Living God by the USCCB s Committee on Doctrine nbsp It is a wise learned and gracious response that also demonstrates nbsp Sister Johnson s nbsp superlative command of the theological ques

This time last year the clerical sex abuse crisis was raging across central Europe It has subsided now but aftershocks are still being felt In Germany and Austria where church members pay a tax unless they formally declare they have left it is possible to track with some accuracy the numbers o

Is NATO sensing the impending collapse of the Qaddafi regime or of support for the air campaign from a Libya-skeptical Congress Whatever the cause it appears to have decided to dramatically escalate the air campaign over the capital city of Tripoli Western reporters counted 27 air strikes today t

I once thought I might have to join or start a Penny Pinchers Anonymous group Frugality seemed old-fashioned something left over from having parents who remembered the Great Depression It seemed almost like a psychological problem or perhaps a bad habit to some of my grad school friends But I

The bad news continues to leak out of the Boston archdiocese The archdiocese was again in the headlines today with a report that Boston may have to confront more shutdowns of parish and or church facilities after a nbsp radical reshuffling nbsp that would unite Boston s 291 parishes into 80 to 12

At nbsp The End of the Modern World etc Joe Trabbic a philosopher at Ave Maria University nbsp posted on ldquo Aquinas and Modern Biblical Exegesis rdquo nbsp on May 25 2011 It has generated no comments on the site which is odd since it is a lively and helpful piece Thomas on Scriptur