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Editorials
The eclipse of religious wisdom has left many young people without the resources to resist suicide.
Art
"The Sacred Made Real" at the National Gallery of Art evokes feelings of awe and enchantment.
A federal spending freeze in 2010 will cut government spending and job creation when the nation needs more stimulation, not less. As the first round of stimulus money is depleted, state and local governments will cut their spending, reducing demand in 2011. Why is a spending freeze a bad idea? The m
Signs Of the Times
“The orders appear to enable Israel to detain, prosecute, imprison and/or deport any and all persons present in the West Bank,” said Richard Falk of the U.N.
Signs Of the Times
Rio de Janeiro’s towering Christ the Redeemer statue, undergoing restoration, was spray-painted with graffiti by vandals.
In All Things
The Legionaries of Christ will not be closed down but face a path of purification says the Vatican in the wake of a detailed report Revelations that the order s Mexican founder Fr Marcial Maciel Degollado was a serial paedophile who secretly fathered children have shattered the Legionaries and
In All Things
Cambridge MA I rsquo ve been wandering a bit in the last few weeks inside outside around the edges of the Church Part of it had to do with actual travel trips to Washington DC Santa Clara California and New York City but much of it was movement in a mental space in a series of conversati
The Good Word
The readings for the Fifth Sunday of Easter wake us up once again to the perennial truth and current application of Scripture nbsp Acts 14 21-27 takes place just after Paul and Barnabas had left Lystra and Derbe if ldquo left rdquo is the proper description of how Paul was escorted out of Ly
In All Things
Just posted to our site along with the May 10 issue is this essay from Bishop Blase Cupich chair of the U S bishops Committee for Child and Youth Protection Twelve Things the Bishops Have Learned From the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis A few highlights 8 Bishops need to be mutually accountabl
In All Things
In an introductory course on practical theology that I teach for undergraduates at Fordham spaces are left open in the syllabus to focus on the practical-theological questions arising from their lives in college culture Once they as a class identify some shared questions I help them fill in the
In All Things
As of this morning the campaign of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown literally involves a car crash Mr Brown was launching the Labour Party s new poster campaign today in central London when some garbage men were so caught up in heckling him that they forgot to look where they were going No on
In All Things
During the 2008 Republican National Convention shouts of Drill Baby Drill were heard from the galleries and also from the podium They were referring to the idea of drilling for oil off America rsquo s coastlines This was presented as a relatively easy and thoroughly American way of dealing wi
In All Things
In a recent episode of the animated hit ldquo South Park rdquo the steady stream of abuse scandals currently rocking the Catholic church became a recurring punchline When asked a question that elicits an obvious yes notoriously insensitive protag Eric Cartman trots out the ldquo Is the Pope Ca
In All Things
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush the son and brother of the two presidents of that name has courageously come out against the new anti-immigration law in Arizona It places a significant burden on local law enforcement and you have civil liberties issues that are significant as well Bush said i
In All Things
Most parents are concerned about their children s exposure to objectionable media content which is too-often readily available on TV or the Internet But would more stringent government regulation of SpongeBob or South Park really help Well according 58 percent of parents surveyed in a recently r
In All Things
Here s an early peak at next week s podcast an interview with Stanley Hauerwas the Duke University scholar who was named America s best theologian by Times magazine in 2001 Best Hauerwas demurred is not a theological category Hauerwas discusses his new memoir Hannah s Child which dea
In All Things
In his Web-only article for America Cul-de-Sac Catholicism Nicholas P Cafardi asked why the U S bishops conference fought health care reform to the end even when the president signed an executive order pledging that the new bill would not utlitize public funds to pay for abortions Now three
In All Things
Huffington Post over the next few weeks will be excerpting a chapter nbsp from my book The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything on the question of experiencing God in our desires and longings nbsp Many people say that they wish that they had a personal experience of God I could believe in G
In All Things
Far be it from me to speak ill of someone who writes kindly about my book and provides a link to Amazon so readers can buy it A blessing on Tim Fernholz But he has issued a reply to my article last week which was in turn a reply to his article in Newsweek in which he said me and Peggy Noonan wer