The two most contentious aspects of the controversial Arizona law SB 1070 sections that called for Az police officers to check a person s immigration status while enforcing other laws and that required immigrants to carry their residency documents at all times nbsp have been blocked by a federal

Geoffrey Berg author of The Six Ways of Atheism recently challenged Pope Benedict XVI to a public debate about the existence of God which Berg hopes will take place during Benedict rsquo s upcoming visit to the U K In an open letter to the pope a copy of which also was sent directly to the Vati

When rock and roll music was born in the 1950s it was performed primarily by young people for young people A number of those young rock stars have grown old yet they continue to play vital exciting rock music It is sad for me as a fan however when rock musicians I admire pass away As more ldq

This week in conjunction with his article on The Jesus Controversy we are pleased to feature a conversation with renowned Bibilcal scholar Luke Timothy Johnson on our podcast Johnson argues that historical scholarship alone cannot find the living Jesus Though the study of history can help Chri

A micro-controversy related to last Spring s drawn-out battle over whether or not the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act PPACA the nation s engine of health care reform included end-run bureaucratese that would allow federal funding for abortion was stirred up by the release of guideline

In many respects, the U.S. Army and the Catholic Church could not be more dissimilar institutions. Both have radically different missions, divergent access to resources, and, seemingly, heterogeneous cultures.

Those who never got around to reading Jesus of Nazareth might have a better chance of getting through Pope Benedict XVI s latest work a children s book The 48-page book is called The Friends of Jesus and is based on texts from the pope s Wednesday general audiences The cover illustration by an It

Trento Italy ndash While the shifts in the Church that predicated the Council of Trent in the mid-1500s may not be quite as seismic as those put in motion by Martin Luther the nearly 600 moral theologians who have been meeting here since Saturday as part of a world-wide ldquo congress rdquo in

Fr Jim Martin is on retreat this week but you can still check out his latest online offering over at the Huffington Post where today he launched the site s first Scripture commentary series Here is the editors introduction The series will bring together leading voices from different religiou

Cambridge MA I recently came across a column in the On Faith section of the Washington Post by Loriliai Biernacki A friend of mine she is a professor of Indian religions at the University of Colorado Boulder and a specialist in the study of Hinduism Her piece is entitled ldquo A rich and st

Before I leave for a retreat I thought I d post this video from the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management on the topic of joy during times of adversity nbsp The talk was nbsp at their annual meeting this June at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphi

Living in Europe during my early twenties was a pivotal experience a life-changing period developmentally of setting out to see ldquo the world rdquo for myself It was also a time of self-testing The experience continues to shape my vacation travel in that I have long tried to save enough mo

Many readers of America will have visited or at least heard about the Pantheon in Rome I knew little about it on my first visit there several years ago but was overtaken by it the moment it came into view from the street And once I stepped inside the rotunda and saw the Catholic altar amidst a

This New York cover story is worth a read if you didn t catch it earlier this month Jennifer Senior sets out to explore the various reasons why in study after study young American parents have been shown to be unhappy with their lives As a new happy parent I was puzzled by this idea but I al

If the above title sounds a little inside baseball to you a very very very brief nbsp explanation nbsp Alice von Hildebrand is a Catholic philosopher and theologian and also nbsp the widow of Dietrich nbsp von Hildebrand a prominent philosopher and moral theologian active in the anti-Nazi

News from the Telegraph Maria Jepsen 65 came under fire for her handling of the case of a pastor accused of abusing young boys and girls in the 1970s and 1980s in her northern nbsp German nbsp diocese of Hamburg She reportedly knew for several years about the case but failed to act My credibili

A nbsp portentous question no nbsp Well that did not dissuade the editors of Patheos an online religion website from posing the question to nbsp a variety nbsp of Catholics nbsp Patheos describes itself as follows Patheos com is the premier online destination to engage in the global dialog

A small item from this month s Esquire magazine In a piece about a potential scandal on television s The Price is Right the author Chris Jones describes some of the show s changes He writes Even when Drew Carey replaced Bob Barker mdash the show s own version of Vatican II mdash he rocked

While reading the New York Times this weekend I could not help but notice that at least five different articles dealt with creating a kind of cultural philosophical or religious permission-giving for taking time away from electronic connectivity in everyday life Is this a noteworthy constell