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Television
Dominic J. Grassi

The PBS series “Scenes From a Parish” chooses not to dwell on the forces that sap the energy from so many church communities today.

Columns
Margaret Silf
My neighbors were willing to take children of any age and any degree of disability.
Faith in Focus
B. G. Kelley
God, Bob Cousy and me
The Word
Barbara E. Reid
Christmas Day (C), Dec. 25, 2009
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."

Signs Of the Times

"We simply cannot accept the continuation of a situation that is [most affecting] the people who have contributed least to the problem.”

Signs Of the Times

A report describing in detail failures of church leaders in handling sexual abuse cases in the Archdiocese of Dublin has resulted in calls for further investigations.

In All Things
James Martin, S.J.
nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Call it Schadenfreude if you must but this is pretty funny nbsp And if you ve ever have a complaint against America which is close to impossible but nbsp hey even we admit we re not perfect you have to admit
In All Things
James Martin, S.J.
In our Culture section we re very lucky to have as one of our newest film reviewers John McCarthy the editor of Cineman Syndicate and the media correspondent for Catholic Digest He also reviews films for Catholic News Service and Boxoffice Magazine nbsp He joins our longtime reviewer Richard A
In All Things
Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
Cambridge MA As you know President Obama gave his Nobel Prize speech the other day in Oslo It is a fine and thoughtful speech well worth our meditation so be sure to read it It should make us proud that we have this very intelligent and insightful man as our president I worry though that h
The Good Word
John W. Martens
We have had what I consider a rousing discussion on the Immaculate Conception still ongoing as I write with cris de coeur from some participants that we concentrate more on our relationship with God and less on dogmatic definitions Dogmatic definitions in a sense set the boundaries of discussio
In All Things
James Martin, S.J.
Talking about The Holy Family way back in October with American Catholic Radio in Cincinnati nbsp This was before recording an audio book which explains the--ahem--casual wear nbsp
In All Things
Valerie Schultz
nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp My dad s funeral Mass was said last summer in a church that he had not often attended After he was buried my mother moved to a smaller house in another town In November she got a letter from the parish where the funeral had been inviting our family to a special
In All Things
Kevin Clarke
Observers at the Copenhagen climate conference from Caritas Internationalis were pretty underwhelmed by commitments from European states to help poor nations in the developing world mitigate unnatural disasters due to global warming calling the purported new commitments a wind-powered bluff In a
In All Things
Kevin Clarke
Apparently a thoroughly devastating report on clerical sexual and physical abuse of Irish children and attempts to cover it up by the Irish hierarchy has been gruesome enough to draw an unprecedented response from Pope Benedict XVI Benedict met with senior Irish bishops and high-ranking members of
In All Things
Michael Sean Winters
When it rains it pours Just when I finish a blogpost about the - hmmmm how to put this gently ndash the unspeakably stupid remarks being made about President Obama rsquo s speech yesterday in Oslo I find an even grosser example of intellectual idiocy over at Huffington Post There Barbara Com
In All Things
Michael Sean Winters
The lack of basic knowledge of the traditions of Western thought is a sore affliction in anyone but in people who are paid to write about important events this lack is criminal The commentary on President Obama rsquo s Nobel lecture in Oslo yesterday has hit new lows in this regard Consider the
In All Things
Kevin Clarke
A Gaza-born resident of the West Bank and Bethlehem University student will not be allowed to complete her college education with just two-months to go before her graduation after the Israeli High Court of Justice accepted the Israeli Defense Forces decision to expel the young woman in October B
In All Things
Michael Sean Winters
There is not another politician in America who could have delivered the speech given by President Barack Obama this morning when he received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo It was an intellectual tour de force and the force came from his own intellect not from that of his speechwriters This was his
In All Things
James Martin, S.J.
The anniversary of the death of Thomas Merton Dec 10 1968 nbsp is coming up and I offer this meditation from a few years back Spots of time rdquo is what the poet William Wordsworth called those places that imprint themselves so deeply into our minds that simply remembering them can lift our