We have just posted an online slide show of images from Haiti Thanks to CNS and Reuters Tim Reidy nbsp

The strange thing about studying early Christianity in Turkey is that there are not a lot of Christians left in Turkey the lands that were home to so much of the earliest growth and development of Christianity and the location of all seven of the first Ecumenical Councils As we discuss how Christi

This weekend the government of El Salvador will issue a formal apology for its persecution of the Jesuit order during the bloody civil war of the 1980s This comes a couple of months after the honouring six priests killed 20 years ago For all the murdered priests nuns catechists and ordinary ch

As one result of the earthquake in Haiti much USA and world military energy is being transformed and directed toward humanitarian aid nbsp An aircraft carrier outfitted for war will bring fresh water and medicines to the citizens of Port-au-Prince Helicopters designed to convey soldiers to the b

Archbishop Raymond Burke Prefect of the Apostolic Singatura delivered the homily at the Red Mass in Pheonix Tuesday In his remarks he said of America It is a society which is abandoning its Judeo-Christian foundations the fundamental obedience to God rsquo s law which safeguards the common go

Just returned from a preview of Book of Eli Thank you Grace Hill Media nbsp The story A superfast supersensitive Denzel Washington wanders through post-apocalyptic USA trying to shepherd the last remaining Bible to a place where it will make a difference Note to the writer the developing

Cambridge MA Many readers will know that Professor Mary Daly pioneering brilliant and controversial feminist theologian died last week at age 81 nbsp See Jim Martin s note on this too Professor Daly taught for some 30 years at Boston College and so she was my colleague there from 1984 whe

A notice from the Apostleship of Prayer Full Text from Vatican Information Service At the end of today s general audience held in the Paul VI Hall the Pope launched an appeal for the dramatic situation currently being experienced in Haiti My thoughts go in particular to the population hit jus

Our online Signs of the Times this week is devoted exclusively to the unfolding disaster in Haiti In this overview of the damage inflicted by the earthquake Catholic Relief Services says it is preparing for thousands and thousands of dead and injured in the wake of the worst natural disaster to s

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Among the almost 50 000 estimated victims of the terrible earthquake in Haiti was the archbishop of Port-au-Prince Joseph Serge Miot who died when his office adjacent to the nbsp Cathedral of nbsp Our Lady of the Assump

On mornings like this only the tears flow easily Thoughts and words grapple with the enormity of a tragedy so devastating Three of the four horsemen of the apocalypse have made their grim way to Haiti ndash War is busy elsewhere ndash and yet already we discern a fifth horseman on t

When we look at the tragedy in Haiti we all have a common response and I know that many of us have received requests for help from various different groups Following on Fr Martin s post I would like to stress the value of Jesuit Refugee Service on the basis of practicality--we Jesuits have no

From our friends at the Jesuit Refugee Service In response to yesterday rsquo s devastating earthquake in Haiti Jesuit Refugee Service is mounting an emergency relief effort to provide lifesaving aid including food and other urgently needed items to the Haitian people Aid will be provided in par

As an addendum to nbsp Kevin Clarke s helpful nbsp blogpost here is the link to Catholic Relief Services nbsp to help those affected in Haiti nbsp Pray at home for the victims and their families help CRS here

Catholic Relief Service workers in the field are reporting unprecedented devastation in Haiti rsquo s capital city Port-au-Prince following yesterday rsquo s 7 0-magnitude earthquake Karel Zelenka CRS rsquo s country representative for Haiti told CRS spokesperson John Rivera the devastation is unl

By now most regular readers of our blog have read--and responded to-- What if We Said Wait Father Michael Ryan s critique of the new translation of the Roman Missal The article has garnered over 200 comments and is the most read article on our site for the second month in a row Now Father P

The controversy over the revelations in the new book Game Change about the 2008 presidential election has so far focused on Sen Harry Reid rsquo s comment about then-Sen Obama rsquo s skin color and his lack of what Reid called a Negro dialect The use of the word Negro as an adjective is no

Just a few days after a Malaysian court ruling allowing a Catholic newspaper to use the word Allah to refer to God seemed to offer the nation rsquo s minority Christians a small civil victory the government has reinistated its ldquo Allah rdquo ban among non-Muslims Malaysian officials are appar

On this week s podcast Drew Christiansen S J offers an introduction to Reinhold Niebuhr the mid-20th century theologian and public intellectual who has been invoked by David Brooks and others as a major influence on President Obama s foreign policy Father Christiansen argues that the pundits g

When writing yesterday rsquo s post I had not yet read the English translation of the Holy Father rsquo s Address to the Curia delivered annually just before Christmas and serving as the ecclesiastical equivalent of the queen rsquo s speech from the throne or president rsquo s state of the union a