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In All Things
In this week s New York Times magazine Mark Leibovich profiles Florida rsquo s upcoming Republican primary in which the sometimes-popular and one-time front runner Governor Charlie Crist is struggling to stay ahead of tea-party poster boy Mark Rubio The piece details the rise of this growing thou
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You may have seen that Art Clokey the creator of Gumby and Pokey died this weekend at the age of 88 nbsp Most of the nbsp obituaries including this nbsp extensive one nbsp today at The New York Times focused on his more-famous creations the green man and his little red horse who stop-
In All Things
The Liturgy Wars are back although I suspect they never really left Yesterday Pope Benedict celebrated Mass in the Sistine Chapel where the altar faces the great mural of the Last Judgment by Michelangelo That is the Pope presided ad orientem or facing away from the people The liturgy in the
In All Things
David Van Biema s pieces in Time are always worth reading nbsp This one which looks at a trend that has flown largely under the religious radar is no exception nbsp The racial divide is falling fastest says Van Biema in evanglical Christianity In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr famously declar
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I am never sure how nbsp many people read only the on-line version of this magazine and others read only the print magazine If you fall into the former category look up on the mainpage and you will see a beautiful picture of the baldachino in St Peter s in Rome There is also a link to an article
The Good Word
For reasons having to do with airline flights we trace the Apostle Paul s journey through Greece backwards at least Paul s first journey through Greece described in Acts which is often titled The Second Missionary Journey Acording to Acts 17 1-15 and 1 Thessalonians itself Paul was persecute
In All Things
A guest columnist today in the On Faith blog WashPost and Newsweek s is Sr Mary Ann Walsh RSM the director of media relations for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops nbsp She s tackling the complicated issue of the reconciliation of the House and Senate bills on health care nbsp Her led
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Elizabeth Scalia aka The Anchoress nbsp at First Things is someone who is always worth reading even if you sometimes come at things Catholic from a different nbsp angle than she does nbsp Her she is over at Inside Catholic on the New Mass es nbsp The Novus Ordo isn t going anywhere but man
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We writers especially we writers who focus on politics appreciate fine speechwriting Peggy Noonan and Rick Hertzberg are two of my favorite former presidential speechwriters And it would be impossible for any wordsmith not to admire President Obama rsquo s speechwriter Jon Favreau who has pen
In All Things
An online petition has been launched ht Ruth Gledhill to protest the beatification of Pope Pius XII expected next October together with that of Pope John Paul II The decision by Pope Benedict XVI to proceed with the beatification made just before Christmas has led to a spate of Jews spitting
The Good Word
The manifestations of what God is doing for creation in Jesus continue apace suggesting that there are even more facets for exploration than we have seen to date liturgically rich though the past weeks have been The template today is complex the Isaian servant closely resembling Moses declares
In All Things
Look backward When God seems asleep in our lives or not present or when we want to say Don t you care sometimes it s best to look backwards and see where God has already been Looking for God in the past helps you trust that God is with you in the present and will be in your future too No m
In All Things
I last saw Sen Chris Dodd a couple of weeks ago outside of St Joseph rsquo s church where we had both just attended Mass I first met him in 1974 at the kitchen table in my home in Connecticut He had come there en route to a campaign event in our little town which had a church hall large enough f
In All Things
Here in Barcelona I ve just finished a long noisy family lunch which began with children opening presents Today the Feast of the Epiphany -- we ve lost sight of it in the US and the UK since it was merged with last Sunday -- is the day when in Spain gifts are given commemorating those present
In All Things
The hoary argument that Budd Schulberg and Elia Kazan sought to use their film On the Waterfront to justify their decision to name names before the House Un-American Activities Committee was resurrected once again last month in the New York Times Magazine s annual The Lives They Lived issue In
In All Things
Things liturgical have a way of raising nbsp Catholic hackles Cackles even here at In All Things nbsp Maybe that s as it should be the Mass is the source and summit of Catholic worship so Catholics should take the celebration of the Mass and the other sacraments and other things liturgi
In All Things
While we continue to publish on a biweekly print schedule in January our news pages will be updated weekly on our Web site The latest round of Signs of the Times items has just been posted Read about the life of Cardinal Cahal Daly who was instrumental in pushing Norhtern Ireland toward peace a
In All Things
You could sense the anger in the President rsquo s words and on his face as he spoke to the nation yesterday after a meeting with his national security and intelligence aides This was not a failure to collect intelligence it was a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we alrea
FaithIn All Things
Mary Daly, the self-described "radical lesbian feminist" theologian, provocateur (provocateuse?) and prolific author who, in the overly polite words of The Boston Globe, "tussled" with Boston College (over many things, but particularly over her decision not to admit men to her classrooms) has died, at the age of 81.