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Ideas
Now that we can see what computers can do, are we carbon-based life forms the ones in jeopardy?
Signs Of the Times
Taiwan’s Cardinal Paul Shan will make a historic visit to China, the first contact between Catholics on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait in 60 years.
Signs Of the Times
The country now stands on the brink of achieving the “dream” of a democratic system, the patriarch of Alexandria said.
Signs Of the Times
Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley reportedly will tell the pope that the church in Ireland is “on the edge” of collapse because of the abuse scandals.
Art
Have art historians de-Christianized sacred art?
In All Things
Cambridge MA I at least was enthralled for the last six weeks by my series on Swami Prabhavananda on the Sermon on the Mount and so have not commented on other issues For the sake of catch-up I did want to make one comment now mdash on the extract from Pope Benedict rsquo s Holy Week from th
The Good Word
I love the Bible for more reasons than I could possibly write in one blog post but I will stick with one reason here I love its oddly-angled continuities I could be describing my old house literally but I am describing the ways in which the coherence of the Bible takes its shape by winding and
In All Things
What does unconditional love and acceptance look like in twenty-first century America today Sometimes she wears a dress made of raw meat To her millions of fans and admirers Lady Gaga the 24-year-old pop superstar represents acceptance and affirmation when their peers the media and society a
In All Things
A friend recently told me that he was participating in a new inter-religious initiative at a Catholic university in Europe I didn rsquo t envy his assignment Though vitally important in a world that is too often visited by the violent acts of self-avowed religious believers such dialogues can be
In All Things
Jesuits in Malta are calling for an international response to protect civilians in Libya and to assist in the evacuation of sub-Saharan nationals whose governments have been unable or unwilling to remove their citizens from dangerous conditions amid the chaos in Libya Responding to the use of deadl
In All Things
From Mirada Global an examination of the perennial floods in the mountains of Rio de Janeiro mdash and why nothing has been done to prevent them The whole of Brazil and even the rest of the world have witnesses the situation that the State of Rio de Janeiro faces due to the rains and the floods
In All Things
At Poynter org Martin Baron editor of the Boston Globe talks about the journalistic process behind breaking the story of sexual abuse by priests He says he lit the match starting the investigation on his first day on the job nearly ten years ago Baron was determined to avoid ldquo he said s
In All Things
The Christian member of the Pakistan government killed by Islamic fanatics on Wednesday gave an interview last year which shows he had received threats and knew he was likely to die Shahbaz Bhatti who was Minister of Minorities opposed Pakistan s notorious blasphemy law condemned by Pope Benedic
In All Things
Cambridge MA Lent is upon us our Sunday readings from the Sermon on the Mount come to an end on March 6 and so we must take leave of our series on Swami Prabhavananda rsquo s Sermon on the Mount according to Vedanta Three passages from his commentary on Chapter 7 of Matthew of which we hear on
In All Things
Archbishop Silvano M Tomasi the nbsp Permanent Representative of the Holy See to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva issued a statement on the requirement of religious freedom that is especially pertinent in light of the assassination March 1 of Pakistani Minorities
In All Things
Last year on the day after Thanksgiving I finally had the chance to visit after years of wanting to the Shrine of St Katharine Drexel the great Philadelphia heiress-turned-foundress nbsp The shrine in Bensalem Pa located a few miles from my family s home is also the home of the mother ho