War means that we must kill more of them than they kill of us.

The readings for this Sunday bring the idea of the resurrection to the forefront In a recent post at Commonweal Fr Joseph Komanchak with reference to this Sunday rsquo s Gospel reading in Luke 20 27-38 drew on the work of N T Wright in The Resurrection of the Son of God and St Thomas Aquinas

BARCELONA Pope Benedict XVI has left Spain after a visit of less than 48 hours after a warm send-off by King Juan Carlos and a brief meeting with the the country s anticlerical prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero Zapatero has conspicuously absented himself from the papal visit to Spain

BARCELONA Pope Benedict s last visit today was to the Child Jesus Nen Deu project in Barcelona a home for the disabled run by Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart founded by an Anadalusian nun beatified in 2007 nbsp He greeted teenagers with learning difficulties many with Down s Syndrome

BARCELONA The liturgy was to die for There were more than 1 000 celebrants and the chief among them was pretty hard to beat And it helped to have the King and Queen of Spain in the congregation But the real star of Pope Benedict XVI s dedication this morning of the Sagrada Familia cathedral --

Cambridge MA I spent a bit of time on this quiet Saturday rearranging books in the vain hope that by moving them around and to hitherto unnoticed corners and book-case bottoms I might find more space For the rule is sure if the graduate student spends a lot of time accumulating books with an

BARCELONA Ask an observer about Spanish religion and politics and most people will mention two Spains one left-wing and anti-Catholic the other Catholic and politically conservative That polarization existed long before the Civil War and was reinforced by Franco wrapping himself in the flag

BARCLELONA Hundreds of young Catholics who had gathered to celebrate Pope Benedict s arrival in the Catalan capital tonight with candles and songs were rewarded with a three-minute papal blessing from the Archbishop s balcony They chanted s iacute s iacute s iacute el Papa ya est aacute aq

BARCELONA Over on the other side of Spain speaking in the Plaza del Obradoiro outside the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela Pope Benedict has issued a bracing and often lyrical call for Europe to see faith as our guiding star in the night of time From this place as a messenger of the Gosp

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp This Gospel story takes place after Jesus has entered Jerusalem Palm Sunday and before his Last Supper nbsp Here Sadducees present a problem to Jesus it is constructed so as to make belief in a resurrection from the dead foolish and impossible nbsp Sadducees believ

Pope Benedict has just enjoyed one of the great spectacles of European Catholicism -- the swinging of the giant incense-burner of Santiago de Compostela cathedral known as the botafumeiro roughly smoke-launcher Five feet high weighing 60 kilos and reaching speeds of 40 miles an hour as it s

BARCELONA After kissing the relics of St James the Pope in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela has just finished a speech in which he recalled the proper meaning of pilgrimage and spoke of the inseparability of freedom and truth Both speak to concerns of the Spanish Church The popularity o

BARCELONA As I write the Pope is outside the wonderful 800-year-old cathedral at Santiago de Compostela the destination of hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from across Europe -- and has donned a typical pilgrim s outfit complete with scallop shell Many history books have been written about th

BARCELONA Pope Benedict on the plane to Spain told journalists that there was a very strong clash between faith and modernity in Spain and he called for dialogue not confrontation PA here He spoke of the anticlericalism which erupted in Spain in the 1930s in the run-up to the Spanish Civil War

BARCELONA The Pope has landed at a foggy Lavacolla airport near Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain touching down punctually at 11 30 where he has been greeted by the heir apparent Prince Felipe of Asturias and Princess Letizia together with the Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela J

In the mid-1960s in response to conservative Catholics rsquo intense criticism of Dan Berrigan rsquo s outspoken opposition to the war in Vietnam his superiors sent him to Latin America Although his supporters saw it as an exile his three months in several Latin American countries had its posit

Keith Olbermann the liberal host of MSNBC s Countdown has been suspended without pay for violating NBC s code of ethics which bars employees from donating to political campaigns From the article I became aware of Keith s political contributions late last night Phil Griffin President

On Tuesday before succumbing to election fever I attended All Souls Day Mass One of my favorite holy days All Souls Day provides me the opportunity to think about and remember my friends and relatives who have passed on and to reflect on what the Catholic faith offers in terms of hope and