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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
The Good Word
I want to position my reflection between two catalysts nbsp First is Karen Armstrong rsquo s assertion that mythos or sacred narrative assists us to review and experience deeply the many facets of the human predicament notably here the choice between Good and Evil Second is the genre of imaginat
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America has been introduced to the country of Yemen this past week That introduction was a result of the failed bombing attempt on a Delta flight from Amsterdam to Detroit when 23 year old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was unable to ignite the explosives in his underwear More precisely the introducti
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The former primate of all Ireland Cardinal Cahal Daly who died on New Year s Eve aged 92 was the Irish Church s leading intellectual As a priest he wrote background papers for the bishops attending the Second Vatican Council as a bishop he worked tirelessly for peace and ecumenism speaking ou
Signs Of the Times
A critical factor will be the doctors' evaluation concerning the woman's mental state and whether or not she was "of sound mind."
The apostolic visitation revives some unresolved conflicts.
Signs Of the Times
The Committee on Catholic Education launches a campaign to enroll one million Hispanic students in Catholic schools by 2020.
Signs Of the Times
A major study of the values and aspirations of Latino youth paints a portrait of optimism and enthusiasm in the face of significant struggles.
Books
Sections of John Irving's new novel are a triumph of storytelling, as if the author is shouting: Look, ma, no hands!
Signs Of the Times
" Tragic Week for African Missionaries Priests in South Africa are targets for robbers because they are believed to have money, several clerics said after a French missionary became the fourth priest to be murdered in the country during 2009. Five people, including three teenagers, have been arrest
Signs Of the Times
Cardinal Cahal Daly was remembered for his "sustained efforts in the promotion of justice and peace in Northern Ireland."