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In All Things
Deal Hudson of InsideCatholic com is at it again He has published an article accusing two groups Catholics United and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good with being fake Catholics because of their support for health care reform He admitted to journalistic hyperbole in making the char
In All Things
The Vatican released excerpts from Pope Benedict s World Day of Peace address for New Year s 2010 Reworking a line from Pope Paul Benedict says If you want to cultivate peace protect creation The quest for peace by people of good will surely become easier if all acknowledge the indivisible
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Lest anyone suspect that Afghanistan is the only theater of war that U S strategists need to concern themselves with the recent car bombings in Iraq is a seriously unwelcome reminder that things may not be proceeding altogether well in that front of the late unlamented war on terror An Iraqi Cr
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Michael Sandel the wildly popular Harvard professor whose courses on justice have drawn SRO crowds for two decades is the subject of a PBS series called Justice What s the Right Thing to Do which is also available for online viewing nbsp His book of the same title has just been published
In All Things
The Seattle Times nbsp has picked up the story of the Rev Michael Ryan s piece on the new Mass translations What If We Just Said Wait which appeared in last week s edition of the magazine and generated a raft of responses both here 133 comments and counting and on other websites A new t
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Atheist groups are reaching out advertising their beliefs on billboards buses and subways in recent months with slogans such as ldquo No god hellip No problem rdquo Such groups have made an extra effort during the holiday season placing 270 ads on city buses and trains in the Washington
In All Things
From Robert Mickens at The London Tablet Pope Benedict XVI has said that a Marxist-driven liberation theology is continuing to cause great harm to the Church in Brazil 25 years after he first tried to crack down on its proliferation ldquo Its consequences more or less visible in the form of rebe
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Back in 2004 Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman rsquo s campaign coined the word Joe-mentum after their candidate received a slight uptick in the polls There were other wordplays of a similar sort all of which involved inserting the candidate rsquo s first name into a word replacing a syllable
In All Things
Catholics across the country celebrated the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Saturday Downtown DC saw traffic interrupted for a couple of hours as a procession marched twenty blocks to the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Here in suburban Maryland the fireworks at the nearby church l
Culture
W. S. Merwin writes about darkness, but also our fugitive but astonishing experiences of light.
Signs Of the Times
A total of four bishops have now resigned as a result of a recent report on how the Dublin Archdiocese covered up allegations of clerical sex abuse.
Editorials
If the planet is to survive, all nations must construct an equitable structure for energy consumption.
Signs Of the Times
The bill now before the Senate creates "new and completely unacceptable federal policy that endangers human life and rights of conscience,” three leading bishops said.
How the Great Recession provoked an economic examination of conscience
Signs Of the Times
U.S. bishops plan to launch a postcard campaign in 2010 to urge Congress to make comprehensive immigration reform its next priority.
Television
The PBS series “Scenes From a Parish” chooses not to dwell on the forces that sap the energy from so many church communities today.
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."
Letters
Expert at Work Re “A Visitor’s Guide,” by Doris Gottemoeller, R.S.M. (11/23): It is no surprise that such a balanced, thoughtful and challenging article would be the work of Sister Doris Gottemoeller. Her insights reflect the manner in which she has exercised leadership roles in ma