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In All Things
The Archdiocese of Washington DC is no longer offering benefits to spouses of new employees because of the change in DC law allowing same-sex marriages nbsp Here s the Washington Post Employees at Catholic Charities were told Monday that the social services organization is changing its health
In All Things
Canadians are so nice I positively detest having to cite them as the most recent example of the bizarre phenomena by which the Olympic Games celebrate their opening and closing Ceremony and ritual are the kind of things to which a Catholic imagination is naturally drawn I suppose Was anyone else
In All Things
This week online Father Jim Martin talks about his new book A Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything which is available for sale next Tuesday March 9 Listen to our conversation Plus our weekly In These Pages feature highlights an archive article from 1988 detailing the troubling trend toward p
In All Things
I can t say I always look forward to participating in the sacrament of Reconciliation Still I go Not as often as I should perhaps But I try There have been times when I ve felt that the priest barely listened to me or he reacted too harshly to what I had to say A reminder I suppose that whi
The Good Word
There are numerous positives to blogging on the scripture people actually read what you have written the time between writing and publishing is not measured in months and years but in minutes and you can write in a less formal style than is required by academia allowing you often to bridge hear
Books
Gail Godwin writes with the shrewdness and wit of Muriel Spark and a tender, fetching, Southern voice.
To change indicates that one is alive. This applies to people, institutions and even language. It is a natural development even when it meets resistance, because we can become comfortable in old and familiar ways. The challenge of change is before Catholics now as the church in the United States and
Signs Of the Times
Mexico has been involved in a crackdown on narcotics trafficking cartels that have been fighting turf wars over smuggling routes into the U.S.
Editorials
Politicians need to hear from the American people that they are willing to make sacrifices for the future of the nation.
Signs Of the Times
More than 1.2 million people are in settlements, and close to 500,000 people have left Port-au-Prince for outlying regions.
Arts & CultureIdeas
Shakespeare, Edmund Campion and the grace of forgiveness.
Faith in Focus
The spiritual exercises of a hospital chaplain
Portfolio
The exhibit “Good Friday” explores the enduring power of the image of the suffering Christ for contemporary artists.
Books
'Summertime' is a meandering series of interviews with relatives and former lovers of 'John Coetzee.'
Signs Of the Times
A Vatican statement said that church leaders recognized the sense of “pain and anger, betrayal, scandal and shame” that the crisis provoked.
Signs Of the Times
Catholic Relief Services’ anti-hunger programs during 2008 helped an estimated 49.3 million people.
As I grieved over the recent earthquake victims in Haiti, many friends who know of my close personal ties to that country sought to console me. Those ties began in 2001, when as an idealistic graduate student of sociology I undertook a dissertation project that compared how the Catholic Church assis