The New Mass; Who Is Not Coming?; Developing Obesity

Cambridge MA Today is the birthday of Mohandas K Gandhi It is true that his particular programs and positions have faded with age mdash Indians do not live in the past and have moved on for better or worse and it is true that now as in the past there are thoughtful Indians of Hindu and ot

Sometimes the relationship amongst the lectionary readings are clear and seem obviously so sometimes the relationships are not so obvious The three readings for the Twenty Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Habakkuk 1 2-3 2 2-4 2 Timothy 1 6-8 13-14 and Luke 17 5-10 do not seem obviously related

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp This Sunday Gospel reading consists of two distinct parts first there is a request answered by criticism and second Jesus offers a parable about a servant nbsp Though our reading is verses 5-10 I think it useful if not nbsp necessary to intepret them as comments on th

Earlier I discussed What is the Good Word and What is the Good Word 2 The Old Testament today I want to discuss the New Testament The contents of the New Testament NT are the same whether one is Catholic Orthodox or any other variety of Christian - with one glaring nbsp exception There a

Few people are as courageous as a politician who is out of a job and a long way from the next one When relieved of the demands of governing with all its attending compromises and necessary half-measures politicians find the pluck to simply speak their minds Take Ed Miliband for example Mr Mil

On this feast day of his favorite saint, James Martin, S.J., shares a reflection on Therese of Lisieux.

In this Sunday rsquo s New York Times magazine political reporter Mark Leibovich profiles the meteoric rise of America rsquo s favorite fear monger Glenn Beck his colleague at FOX News Shepherd Smith once introduced Beck rsquo s program as ldquo the Fear Chamber rdquo Beck rsquo s ubiquity

Living as I do in San Francisco along the coast I remain deeply curious how high the sea rise is likely to be between now and 2100 I have a cousin who recently bought a house in our Marina district I kid that he may have to move to higher ground before too many years pass Reading a new book by

The stunning news that a soon-to-be-saint was excommunicated for urging the church to take action against a sex offender is a reminder of the virulence of the crimes of clerical abuse.

The results of the U S Religious Knowledge Survey just published by the PEW Forum on Religion and Public Life hold up a sorry mirror before the public With 32 basic questions in all mdash and no trick questions--the questions fell into several groups Christianity and the Bible world religions r

It has been nearly six months now since I have been writing for In All Things and I want to thank the America staff for their great help and support Very few psychologists have the opportunity to reach a such large audience so I view this opportunity as a great gift Responses from readers both

Check out the images by Eric Fischer that offer stark reminders that major American cities are still quite segregated Using data from the 2000 census Fischer uses colored dots to signify the majority ethincity of people in a given area Check out some examples below red is white blue is black g

File this under the Really column nbsp David Gibson over at Politics Daily reports President Obama s surprising devotion to Mary Help of Christians nbsp Somehow this slipped past the Disputations filter but during her vacation in Spain in August First Lady Michelle Obama revealed that her

Finding useful objects strewn about on the sidewalks and streets of New York--surely one of the most waste-prone cities in the nation--happens frequently as I move about between home and work I have lived in other big cities but either the residents there are less wasteful or else their sanitati

These are a few musings that were stoked by the comments on ldquo Send Lazarus rdquo or ldquo Now You Remember My Name rdquo and the ideas are just beginning to take shape so please feel free to comment on and correct what you read here I had focused on the concrete use of material wealth f

If you enjoy taking a quiz now and then and would like to see how you compare with other Americans on your knowledge of just six ldquo religion and American life rdquo questions take the self-test offered on the New York Time rsquo s Web site The test is an interactive feature that accompanies a

The nbsp editors of The New York Times nbsp evince something of nbsp a fascination for Matteo Ricci the great Jesuit missionary to China nbsp As well nbsp they nbsp should nbsp nbsp The Italian Jesuit 1552-1610 was nbsp fascinating man living in a fascinating era who did fascinating things n