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Art
Though often spurned by critics, Norman Rockwell has always been popular.
Signs Of the Times
The pope made his strongest remarks to date on sexual abuse cases at a press conference on May 11 during his flight to Portugal.
Signs Of the Times
A new poll shows that U.S. Catholics’ approval of Pope Benedict XVI’s job performance dropped a “dramatic” 15 points over the past two years.
In All Things
At Fordham University on Saturday our venerable commencement speaker and a recipient of an honorary doctorate was the Irish president Mary McAleese I was a faculty marshal carrying the mace for the Graduate School of Religion which meant among other things that I got to sit up on the s
In All Things
You may not have heard of the Cathedral of Frombork on Poland s Baltic coast But the remains that were re-buried there yesterday after a ceremony led by Poland s leading churchmen were of one of the best-known scientists in history long associated with one of the most significant shifts in the way
In All Things
Cambridge MA As you know from many lsquo fusion rsquo blogs I do not neatly separate out my weekend ministry as a priest and my work as a Catholic theologian who tries to learn deeply from Hinduism Another crossover moment is our current feast Pentecost As we hear in the first reading the
In All Things
WHEN are we Catholics going to stop harping on slamming despising gay people During a recent Mass in the Diocese of Fresno I was asked to sign up for the Catholic Legislative Network I was in complete agreement with the pitch defense of the sanctity and dignity of life from conception to natural
In All Things
Life would be so much less interesting if Professor Robert George was not around He has replied to my post yesterday with a post of his own over at Mirror of Justice Among other things he accuses me of an ad hominem attack when I wrote that the tone of his first post was condescending and that con
In All Things
Just posted to our Web site a series of video interviews with soldiers and conscientious objecters exploring the dilemma of killing in war These videos are taken from the new Emmy-nominated documentary Soldiers of Conscience Many thanks to Ian Slattery for providing these clips Two examples
In All Things
Since 1972 it has been accurate to say that older voters vote and younger voters don rsquo t Many youths don rsquo t even bother to register thereby wasting one of the greatest privileges of democracy But that description of politically apathetic youth is subject to change which it did most rec
In All Things
nbsp Normally I don t blog about articles in the Culture section in the print edition but I want to draw your attention to an online slide show of the work of Jonathan Alpeyrie a prominent photographer who in December of 2009 visited the remote monastery of Kintsvisi in Georgia nbsp We fit a
In All Things
Here on one of my favorite shows Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett carried on NPR are two of my favorite Jesuits and two friends George Coyne S J and Guy Consolmagno S J both astronomers working at the Vatican Observatory in Rome and in Tucson nbsp Just one is fun enough two is
In All Things
The fifth in a series on Huffpost nbsp If only I could experience God then perhaps I could believe That s a refrain of quite a few seekers and agnostics But they may already have experienced God the desire for God is very often a sign of God s call to us In the echo of our longing for the
In All Things
Today in the category of ldquo Things I Wish My Fellow Midwesterners Wouldn rsquo t Say Because it Gives My Friends Too Much Ammunition rdquo Democratic Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson has reported that he has never used an ATM machine nbsp That rsquo s right nbsp In an article posted in the Oma
In All Things
Cathy Kaveny professor of law and theology at Notre Dame nbsp has weighed in on Dotcommonweal on the controversy surrounding the announcement of the excommunication of nbsp Margaret McBride a Sister of Mercy pictured at right by Bishop Thomas Olmstead of Phoenix for her approval of an abortio
In All Things
Professor Rick Garnett is a professor of law and I am not so I do not disagree with him lightly on matters of the law He is also very smart so I do not disagree lightly with him on anything At his blog Mirror of Justice he takes issue with my immediate reaction to the recent Supreme Court de