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

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

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-

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

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

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

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