“Love is inventive, even to infinity,” St. Vincent told his followers. He also showed them what such inventiveness meant.

Among all the grand titles we ascribe to Jesus perhaps root of Jesse is the least remarkable nbsp This title however serves to underline the humanness of Jesus he is born as one of many descendants in a history of generations of human beings nbsp As such root of Jesse forms part of that

On Bloggingheads com which provides two people an extended--very extended given the digital age--opportunity to converse nbsp They invited me to have a conversation with Susan Thistlethwaite a UCC theologian at Chicago Theological Seminary and we covered the so-called War on Christmas the

Cambridge MA Like many of you I am sure I was surprised that the Senate actually voted to repeal Don rsquo t Ask Don rsquo t Tell before ending its lame-duck session In retrospect it seems as if the long discussions and testimonies seem to have made a difference and a few skilled political le

Lord is the title given Jesus in the second antiphon nbsp before Christmas nbsp There are a number of times Jesus is called Lord in the Gospels and the New Testament nbsp Some scholars would like to read this title as honorific without reference to divinity and at times the title is used this

I don t know if any of our readers are interested in the new Tron film but I went to see it Friday and I have to say it has one of the more compelling images of original sin of recent times nbsp Jeff Bridges plays this computer programmer father-figure who creates a program Clu it s an acron

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp It is instructive to compare the reading from St Paul and the reading from St Matthew nbsp St Paul in Romans tersely describes the coming of Jesus his Son descended from David according to the flesh nbsp As for today s Gospel nbsp St Matthew tells nbsp gives

Because we are so used to the Incarnation of the child who came to live among us and the manner in which it happened nbsp I think we take for granted its inevitability It was not necessary God could have redeemed humanity in some other way with more might more power more fireworks - think Holl

Beginning with December 17 and running through December 23 Evening Prayer of the breviary includes prayers that begin with O nbsp These are prayers or more specifically antiphons which indicate titles given to Jesus of Nazareth nbsp The first of these that of December 17 is O Wisdom nb

Pax Christi Ireland is one of the smaller sections of Pax Christi International Its general secretary Tony D rsquo Costa spoke of its work during a recent visit to New York to attend a series of NGO at the United Nations He stayed with us at Dan Berrigan rsquo s community in Lower Manhattan Beca

No as Stephen Colbert tells us it s worse than that Jesus is for the poor

Check out this story from The Economist about the Catholic Church in China and the increased friction between the Vatican and communist officials From the article THE Catholic church in China according to a state-affiliated Catholic newspaper Tianguang has never enjoyed the sort of ldquo p

We are pleased to offer this guest blog post on the upcoming election in Sudan from Christian Hennemeyer Mr Hennemeyer has worked in the foreign aid field for over 25 years mainly in Africa Birth is a bloody and painful experience and the birth of a new African nation may be no less traumati

Even the Tree has a stylist nbsp According to The New York Times the affluent in New York City are now outsourcing the decoration of homes for Christmas nbsp to a stylist No no NO NO NO nbsp I TOLD you not to use so much TINSEL And that WHITE TREE nbsp Hans what were you thinking

Father Jim Martin s recent blog on the Wisconsin apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary rekindled thoughts about and an assessment of what these visions really mean Over a hundred years ago William James considered by many to be the Father of American Psychology wondered similar thoughts and unde

Inside Job the new film on the underlying reasons and the putative villains behind the Great Recession is sure well pretty sure to gain an Oscar nod for best documentary nbsp Which means that America needed to review it for you nbsp Karen Smith our editorial director liked it and w

Thanks Archbishop Fabriciano Your pal nbsp Children everywhere nbsp Argentine archbishop slams Santa Claus AFP ndash 1 day ago BUENOS AIRES mdash A Roman Catholic archbishop surprised his parishioners in Argentina by telling the children that Santa Claus was not real but instead a comme

Are we desacralizing Dec 25 with ldquo Midnight Masses rdquo earlier and earlier the day before nbsp What rsquo s your opinion Over dinner a few weeks ago I spoke with a group of five parish priests about something that had me concerned or at least had piqued my curiosity nbsp What did the

Recently in America magazine Prof Christopher Ruddy wrote a typically discerning and meditative article titled Our Ecumenical Future How the Bishops Can Advance Christian Unity November 8 2010 I was brought along in a spirit of genial agreement with him until the end of the article when