Last week Pope Benedict XVI offered more evidence of his greenish sensibilities calling for more research and development of clean energy options for the future During introductory remarks made at a June 9 presentation of credentials from new ambassadors to the Vatican Pope Benedict commented on

In conjunction with Fr William O Malley s article in the current issue of America we will be posting a few of his homilies to The Good Word this week Fr O Malley is a noted homilist and author who has taught high school students for over forty years You can read some of Fr O Malley s other h

Blink a fun series of short videos on CatholicTV in Boston asked me to film a ten-part series called Ways of Prayer nbsp We move through nbsp An Overview of Prayer nbsp the Rosary Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament the Mass as Prayer Nature Prayer Centering Prayer Lectio Divina Ignat

And now for something completely different Enjoy Tim Reidy

I was able this past weekend to attend a conference at the Monsignor Jerome D Quinn Institute of Biblical Studies at the St Paul Seminary School of Divinity where I also spend a part of my working week The conference The Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church The Catholic Seminary

Certain exclusions apply see your local diocese for details The Boston Globe reports on a Catholic parish in a gay neighborhood of the city that had planned to hold a Mass proclaiming that all are welcome to have its plans scrapped by the archdiocese following complaints from anonymous conservat

I write as a dad to other dads Put down your phones when you re with your children I know how hard it can be to resist the lure of the latest update emanating from your device but is it just me or are fathers given or taking much more cultural permission for ignoring their kids in favor of

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