This report was posted by William Van Ornum on Tuesday but unfortunately disappeared from the site Employees in the prison system in Virginia are preparing the chemicals and setting up the execution chamber for a scheduled execution on today nbsp Thursday September 23 2010 Teresa Lewis was con

And why not nbsp My friend Brother Guy Consolmagno the Jesuit nbsp astronomer and MIT grad who works at the Vatican observatory and who surprised Stephen Colbert with his common sense about the Second Person of the Trinity said he was comfortable with the idea of baptizing an alien nbsp At

The latest issue of the Weekly Standard explores the ever-shrinking fertility rate in western countries and asks if the one-child policy is the latest Chinese import sweeping America The writer Jonathan V Last chronicles the implementation of China rsquo s policy and the potential economic and

As conditions for Chaldean Catholics in Iraq deteriorate and political unrest threatens Christians in Lebanon the Kingdom of Jordan remains a small oasis of relative calm for the Middle East rsquo s Christian minority Christians here remain confident of their acceptance by the larger Muslim societ

The NYT CBS poll Sept 10-14 2010 is just one random sample a national telephone poll conducted a few weeks before an important Congressional election Yet the information in it indicates what is actually on the mind of registered voters which is reason enough to pay close attention to what vot

I was thinking of a Top Ten Parable list, but for some reason a Top Twelve List seemed right to me.

Cambridge MA A note to the interested In my entry on Saturday I spoke of my existential moment juggling watching the Pope in the UK my most interesting and daunting life at Harvard and the prospect of preaching on I Timothy 2 with its own triple focus on the king the one God and the one he

The conversation on the future of Catholic education continues as three more respondents weigh in on Archbishop Dolan s article The Catholic Schools We Need Patrick J McCloskey author of The Street Stops Here argues that Catholic schools could flourish if more institutions and individuals wer

This article has been online for a little while but it seemed right in light of Pope Benedict rsquo s recent visit to the United Kingdom to post a link to it here for readers who have not seen it In this article in the Homiletic and Pastoral Review Fr Joseph T Lienhard S J reflects on ldquo P

Ross Douthat an intelligent and literate Catholic observer nbsp and a columnist nbsp in the New York Times writes perceptively nbsp on the surprising turnout for Pope Benedict in light of the protests by atheists like Richard Dawkins and predictions of embarrassing crowds nbsp The same phenome

Many of us today remember C. S. Lewis for writing the books which led to the film series “Chronicles of Narnia.”

The parable Luke 16 1-13 concerns a manager who is to be relieved of his job because of dishonesty nbsp Jesus does not identify what precisely is the dishonesty nbsp nbsp In this situation the manager saves himself by making friends with those who were in debt to his master he reduces their

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd continues her rant against a president she characterizes as an effete out of touch elitist who is willfully ignorant of the plights of the common person The column Myth and Madness begins as a discussion about Delaware s GOP nominee for Senate the much mali

nbsp nbsp nbsp Turning 30 was so far the most traumatic birthday of my life My thirties were the hardest decade to enter even worse than my forties or fifties which really makes little sense Thirty seemed like the end of possibilities Once a person is 30 it seemed to me the path of life

A short while ago at 6 45 pm UK time Pope Benedict XVI s Alitalia plane Shepherd One threaded its way into the lead skies above Birmingham Airport back to Rome after a brief departure ceremony in which the prime minister David Cameron told him that he had challenged the whole country to s

To compliment Austen Ivereigh s superb reporting over the last few days on the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman this video of the beatification ceremony which includes some of the pope s remarks on the newest Blessed nbsp

The Gospel readings for today suggest either Luke 16 1-13 or Luke 16 10-13 I can easily understand why a Priest or Deacon might elect to preach on 16 10-13 today omitting the whole of the parable of the dishonest steward or manager Most commentators see the parable itself running from verses 1-

COFTON PARK BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND The Mass of the Beatification of Cardinal Newman has just ended Newman is beatified This was the Pope s final large-scale event and it was another triumph He has not put a foot wrong and the newspapers this morning are all wondering how he did it By our apo

BIRMINGHAM England Bill Kilgallon chairman of the National Catholic Safeguarding Commission of England and Wales gave a briefing to journalists shortly before the beginning of Mass here about the meeting which took place yesterday -- the first of its kind -- between the Pope and safeguarding

Cambridge MA Saturday 6 10 PM It rsquo s been a few weeks since I rsquo ve blogged mdash the combination of the hectic beginning of semester the exhausted my three blogs on Dominus Iesus and the happy ceding this space for two unique and interesting entries by Deacon Mike Iwanowicz mdas