Rimini Italy Here at the annual Meeting organised by Communion and Liberation CL -- see previous post -- there are three regulars from Britain professor John Milbank pictured pioneer of the radical orthodoxy movement and one of the UK s leading experts on Catholic Social Teaching and

I m loath to do it but it seems like somebody here should comment on this weekend s Beckapalooza in Washington In promoting tomorrow s megalomania nbsp at the memorial OK he didn t really call it that Glenn Beck has nbsp thoughtfully observed that African Americans don t own Martin Luther K

It doesn t and here s proof from mewithoutYou hat tip to Chris Bodenner at the Daily Dish nbsp nbsp mewithoutYou is fronted by Aaron Weiss raised with his brother in a Muslim-Sufi tradition which informs his I would say unique but uniquely faithful might be better understanding of Ch

Know any skittish soon-to-be college freshman nbsp Are you one nbsp If so check out Bustedhalo s popular Freshman Survival Guide Next March their helpful hints for nbsp confronting the physical emotional and spiritual challenges and graces nbsp of nbsp college life will be published in bo

When you write on the Bible one of the things that you should avoid if you can is flippancy People tend to get riled up when you are flippant about Scripture because flippancy gone bad comes off more as ldquo disrespectful rdquo than ldquo light and airy rdquo As a result the flippant wr

Very strong words from a leading English Jesuit on the process that led to the new Mass translations which were approved this week nbsp Philip Endean nbsp a former editor of nbsp The Way who now teaches at Oxford nbsp critiques the complicated wrangling over the translations in a hard-hitting

Rimini Italy The annual seaside festival in this northern Italian town organised by the Communion and Liberation CL movement since 1980 is an extraordinary phenomenon ldquo Il meeting rdquo as it is known ndash full name Meeting for Friendship among Peoples -- nbsp last year attracted

I m a big fan of Richard Rohr OFM especially his book Everything Belongs a big fan of what has come to be known as male spirituality yes I know it s a loaded term but nbsp that area of spirituality nbsp raises important questions for a sex that more than occasionally seems to think that goin

Ninety years ago this week Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment mdash giving women a right to vote that should have been inalienable This week Joanne Gavin continues apace in co-authoring her third book Live Your Dreams Change Your World a powerful guide for women that

As I return from a summer hiatus to write for The Good Word it occurs to me that one of the questions that nbsp we should consider this year is ldquo what is the Bible rdquo Most of us think we know what we are talking about but it can be amazing as to how different our presuppositions actually

As I return from a summer hiatus to write for The Good Word it occurs to me that one of the questions that nbsp we should consider this year is ldquo what is the Bible rdquo Most of us think we know what we are talking about but it can be amazing as to how different our presuppositions actually

This week s cover story from Fr Leo Donovan reviews the Matisse exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art Here we offer a slideshow of images from the exhibit The debate on the search for the historical Jesus continues this week as two scholars respond to Luke Timothy Johnson s article The Jesus Cont

Recently a very short interview in the New York Times caught my attention The person being interviewed was a small businessman named Bob Moore the founder of Bob rsquo s Red Mill Natural Foods Now Bob rsquo s Red Mill makes a product I buy regularly For at least a year now in an effort to impr

Tomorrow is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta nbsp Her ministry to the poor was well known during her life nbsp Her ministry to the doubtful the confused the seeker the one in darkness the one who feels distant from God began after her death with the publicat

You might have heard of late about Eminem s new song Love the Way You Lie nbsp Top of the charts for the last five weeks the song presents rap star nbsp Eminem as a guy who cannot seem to break the cycle of violence with the woman he loves -- not unfamiliar territory for the singer who spent

What America isn t edgy enough nbsp nbsp Sufficiently far out on nbsp the margins nbsp Pushing the boundaries nbsp Fringe-y enough nbsp Check it out we nbsp sent Jake Martin SJ one of our Culture writers to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for this report on the increasingly popular comed

Proponents of embryonic stem cell research heartened by an executive order from President Obama which lifted many Bush-era restrictions on federal money for this controversial bio-medical research are facing a setback after a federal court suspended the 2009 executive order Chief Judge Royce C L

A poll released last month by the Public Religion Research Institute sheds light on the impact of religion and the 2008 vote to abolish same-sex marriage rights in California The poll finds that today a slim majority of Roman Catholics 51 support same-sex marriage interestingly that number ju

Pity Opus Dei Just when they ve dampened the fires of the Da Vinci Code they find themselves implicated in an extraordinary story of mafioso murders secret service intrigues and of course our old friends Archbishop Marcinkus and the Vatican Bank To be fair Opus Dei s involvement in the story o

Do you ever wish nbsp that you were done learning That instead of being tested life was easy leisurely Years ago when still a teenager I wanted to start a religion called ldquo Incidental Meditation rdquo or ldquo I M rdquo for short At the heart of the religion was that the teachings wo