For a moment I thought it was just an act Surely Tracy Morgan mdash the man who discussed crazy animals in his role as Brian Fellows on Saturday Night Live the man whose ldquo 30 Rock rdquo character Tracy Jordan utters lines like I watched Boston Legal nine times before I realized it w

In my last post on In All Things I mentioned that Time magazine had purchased a house in Detroit so they could cover the city s news up close and personal The latest blog entry by the Time writers focuses on U of D Jesuit High School and Academy my alma mater nbsp The blog writer dubs UD High th

Brother Jack Curran F S C at Bethelehem University has asked us to post this news release about the detention of a Bethelehem University student Seeking HELP for a Bethlehem University Student28 October 2009 nbsp Earlier today we learned that Ms Berlanty Azzam a 4th year student enrolled at Be

If you rsquo re at the Church of St Ignatius Loyola in New York on Sunday and able to dodge the marathoners you rsquo ll see something that few people ever see a Jesuit final vow Mass After 21 years as a Jesuit I ve been invited as we say in the Society of Jesus to pronounce final vows nb

This week in the nbsp Culture section Leo O Donovan SJ our go-to guy for all things nbsp in the world of fine arts nbsp has a marvelous review in our current issue on the spiritual eye of the Russian painter Vasily Kandinsky here nbsp Kandinsky is the focus of a new exhibit at the Guggenheim M

Uwem Akpan the Nigerian Jesuit and author of the award-winning Say You re One of Them will be appearing on Oprah Winfrey s show on a worldwide webcast on Nov 9 nbsp the first time Ms Winfrey is doing this for one of her authors nbsp Here s how her website describes it On Monday Novembe

Yesterday Interior Secretary Ken Salazar signed the papers allowing construction to proceed on a monument to the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr on the National Mall here in Washington This is an important thing and I am not sure I would have known how important until a couple of years ago I try

The first reading for the Solemnity of All Saints is Revelation 7 2-4 9-14 what has been omitted from this reading verses 5-8 is simply the listing of the 12 tribes of Israel by name and the numeration of the 12 000 called from each tribe The reading as it appears in the lectionary begins with

A tip from our friend Robert Mickens the Rome correspondent for nbsp the London Tablet nbsp He wrote this morning Andrea Tornielli writes in Il Giornale today that publication of the new Apostolic Constitution establishing the entrance of Anglicans into the Catholic Church is being held up by a

To stay or not to stay that is the question While President Obama from his encampment at Elsinore on the Potomac continued to agonize over his rotten options in the state of Afghanistan in a period of just two days U S forces there suffered a series of terrible losses in what has been the deadli

The Washington Post is reporting on its front page this morning that President Obama has called for a province-by-province analysis of Afghanistan assessing which areas are in need of additional help from the U S and which have local governments that are in sufficient control on their own Such

When I was 9 years old I spied an advertisement in a magazine for a plastic statue of St Jude I can rsquo t imagine which magazine this could have been since my parents weren rsquo t in the habit of leaving Catholic publications lying around the house but apparently the photo of the statue was

The good sisters of America may have a whole new quality of life matter to ponder after a perusal of some photos unearthed by the troublemakers at the National Catholic Reporter of Cardinal Franc Rod eacute Prefect of the Congregation for the Religious at a March ordination of six new deacons for

No my title for this post is a good one and fair Michael Sean Winters writing at the In All Things blog has drawn readers rsquo attention to the Conservative Bible Project CBP The project is perhaps worse than he suggests The CBP first came to my attention through an e-mail sent by my co

I have what I believe in all humility is a brilliant idea a Ripley rsquo s Believe It or Not dedicated entirely to right-wing craziness The first two exhibits both come from the same source Andrew Schlafly son on Phyllis the woman who spearheaded the defeat of the ERA and laid the groundwork

It is crunch time on the health care reform bill The Senate leadership in consultation with the White House are deciding the final parameters of the legislation Catholic observers are keeping their fingers crossed that the final legislative language will permit us to support it Actually some C

Two interesting clarifications on the ordinariates proposal from a functionary in the CDF In a ZENIT interview Msgr William Stetson an Opus Dei canonist who has the snappy title of secretary to the Ecclesiastical Delegate of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for the Pastoral Provisio

How s that for timing On the day that the Vatican begins talks with the ultra-traditionalist Society of St Pius X which split from Rome in 1988 a German court has fined one of the SSPX s bishops Richard Williamson for denying the Holocaust Bishop Williamson must pay 12 000 euros for asserting

As the dust settles -- or should that be as the debris clears -- on the Pope s momentous offer last week of a new home for Anglicans within the Catholic Church interpretations of his audacious move are beginning to shift I have a piece in the Guardian today arguing that the personal ordinariat