Catholic wisdom on end-of-life care

Will we witness a new peace or a return to an old war?

Jonathan Alter's account of President Obama's first year in office

In the Gospel reading for the Twenty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time from Luke 14 1 7-14 Jesus speaks two parables The first deals with honor embarrassment humility and exaltation In the NRSV the first parable is as follows ldquo when he noticed how the guests chose the places of honor he

On Sunday after his colossal ldquo Restoring Honor rdquo rally in Washington D C Glenn Beck took aim at one of his favorite targets Barack Obama but in a novel way nbsp Beck regrets saying a few months ago that President Obama was a ldquo racist rdquo nbsp What he should have said inst

Cambridge MA It is ten years since the Congregration for the Doctrine of the Faith CDF released the Declaration entitled ldquo Dominus Iesus rdquo with the theme of ldquo the unicity and salvific universality of Jesus Christ and the Church rdquo The ldquo release date rdquo was Septembe

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