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In All Things
Tea Party activists are marking the deadline for filing federal income taxes with a protest hear in Washington D C Yesterday Sarah Palin was in Boston site of the original Boston Tea Party giving her fair and balanced interpretation of American history and its current political circumstance I
The Good Word
When we launched The Good Word a few years ago we hoped it would be a place to meditate on events in the news in light of Scripture For Catholics the news these days focuses largely on the church itself so it seems fitting to take up the issue of the sexual abuse crisis on this blog as John W
In All Things
According to Jake Martin SJ one of our television critics Showtime s The Tudors has finally hit its stride this season More often than not episodes of ldquo The Tudors rdquo jumped from plot point to plot point with all the subtlety of crashing cymbals Dialogue was a fusion of a ninth-g
In All Things
Last Saturday in Nevada Senate majority leader and candidate for reelection Harry Reid told an ebullient crowd that the Senate Democrats and the President had not forgotten immigration reform From the New York Times ldquo We rsquo re going to come back we rsquo re going to have comprehensive im
In All Things
The general secretary of the Catholic bishops conference of England and Wales issued the following statement this morning in response to Cardinal Bertone s attempt to link sex abuse of minors to homosexuality To the best of my knowledge there is no empirical data which concludes that sexual orien
In All Things
My colleague Father Martin has pointed out the ridiculousness of Cardinal Bertone rsquo s comments linking pedophilia with homosexuality I find the Cardinal Secretary of State rsquo s remarks not only offensive but completely inexplicable Why would he cite studies that do not exist or which were f
In All Things
The comments yesterday from a high-ranking Vatican official linking homosexuality with pedophilia essentially blaming homosexual priests for the abuse crisis are all the more surprising when you consider a few salient points First of all nearly every reputable mainstream psychologist and psychia
In All Things
I was recently asked to write a ldquo white paper rdquo draft for the California Catholic Bishops for possible voting on the issue of life-sentence without parole for juveniles The United States Supreme Court currently is adjudicating two petitions from incarcerated prisoners from the State of
The Good Word
Acts of the Apostles is our only canonical version of the early growth of the Jesus-believing community cf the Gospels where we have four accounts and so it is immensely formative in the tradition of what we assume happened That we count on the reliability of these events does not preclude our
In All Things
Whom should President Obama nominate to replace Justice John Paul Stevens The question is today Washington rsquo s favorite parlor game Last year I somewhat mischievously suggested Obama nominate Al Gore to the Court and lo and behold tonight on MSNBC rsquo s The Ed Show my suggestion was t
In All Things
The second part of Jason Berry s gruesomely compelling expose of the sordid life of Maciel Degollado pictured founder of the Legionaries of Christ has been published by NCR Part 1 is here It contains more evidence of how Maciel suborned his opponents through lavish funds What is sad is how c
In All Things
The misinterpretation and misreporting of the 1985 Ratzinger letter in the Kiesle case -- my points in this BBC TV interview over the weekend are similar to those in MSW s excellent analysis -- indicate not just poor quality coverage but something altogether nastier It was the great theorist Ren ea
Letters
An Analogy That Hurts Wow! Your editorial “Toyota in Reverse” (3/22) could serve as an analogy to the issues with our institutionalized Catholic Church and its structure. Just substitute church, clergy, bishops and hierarchy for Toyota, executives and the like and you have a pertinent de
Signs Of the Times
A group of Palestinian Christians, Muslims and some Jewish supporters managed to breach the tight security separating Bethlehem and Jerusalem on Palm Sunday.
Signs Of the Times
Twice during Holy Week liturgies, the pope was caught unawares when his aides spoke passionately about the barrage of criticism the pontiff has faced.
Signs Of the Times
L'Osservatore Romano hailed the new U.S.-Russia disarmament treaty on April 7 as a "significant and courageous step toward international security"
Signs Of the Times
Vatican authorities emphasized that it was the pope who, as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, pushed for harsher measures against abusers.