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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
In All Things
From the Daily Telegraph news of a bishops nbsp row over Medjugorge nbsp Cardinal Christoph Schonborn the Archbishop of Vienna was subjected to unprecedented public criticism by Bishop Ratko Peric of Mostar for spending Christmas in the town in his Bosnian diocese where the Virgin is said to
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The indispensible blog of Ben Smith at Politico com has a posting up about immigration reform The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is evidently threatening to withhold support for the health care reform unless the congressional leadership and the White House pledge themselves to moving the immigration
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As part of nbsp our nbsp promise vow to keep you up to date on movies over the Christmas and Epiphany and Baptism season here s Jake Martin s review of Crazy Heart which is winning plaudits for Jeff Bridges s performance as a country crooner looking up from the bottom of nbsp a whiskey bot
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Last October the American Law Institute the group that established standards for the death penalty in America voted to withdraw its support of the practice it helped to define This decision according to New York Times columnist Adam Liptak represents a tectonic shift in legal theory In his
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Says William Doino who writes for Inside the Vatican and contributed to The Pius War nbsp in a lengthy piece in the London Times today nbsp It s one of the most concise and well-documented nbsp defenses of the pope that you will find In the Autumn of 1987 during one of his many meetings with
The Good Word
We went on a tour of classical Athens today with stops at the Acropolis and the Parthenon which sits majectically upon it and the ancient Agora In between quite literally we went to the Areopagus called Mars Hill by the Romans The Areopagus associated with the Greek god of war Ares and m