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In All Things
Cambridge MA In the last entry in this blog Mr Murali Manohar offered some very thoughtful and perceptive reflections on interreligious learning definitely worth your reading So please read his remarks before proceeding with this entry Here I take up just a few of his major points First one
In All Things
US Catholic is launching a survery nbsp of both women religious and other Catholics about the apostolic visitation of women religious The editors of nbsp the magazine wrote to us Since there have been more questions than answers surrounding the visitation we decided to ask Catholics what they tho
In All Things
NCR has obtained a copy of the USCCB s nbsp proposed document on marriage for their November meeting which you can read nbsp here nbsp Much of the document is taken up with the theology of marriage marriage as a nbsp sacrament as a sign of Christ s love as a symbol of the Trinity and of the c
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Much of the discussion about what to do in Afghanistan occurs in front of the backdrop of the Surge in Iraq and its success Indeed over the weekend Sen John McCain repeated the claim that a new Surge is needed in Afghanistan that half-measures will spell defeat and that t here is no way to wi
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The London Observer yesterday ran an article on the Catholicism of the documentary-maker Michael Moore whose new film apparently attacks capitalism from a Christian standpoint Moore is a practising Catholic and has put religion at the core of Capitalism A Love Story Alongside the political argum
A call for justice for the people of Gaza
Columns
George Weigel thinks that some liberal virus has infected the pope's encyclical.
Music
Was Michael Jackson our once and future king? Did his life chart the course of our own?
Signs Of the Times
Pope Benedict XVI urged audiences to rediscover the spiritual and moral values that sustained their struggle for freedom from Communist rule.
Signs Of the Times
Carl A. Anderson, the supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, has been named by Pope Benedict XVI to a council that supervises the Vatican bank.
Books
As a French poet once said, Mary is the sea that no one exhausts.
Editorials
The church in Africa is experiencing the fastest growth in the history of Christianity.
Canon law and the continuity of papal leadership
Letters
Enough Grinning and Groping One reason people sit apart during Mass (Current Comment, 9/28) is to avoid being frowned at for not holding hands and raising them during the Our Father, as if this empty pretense of community could somehow make up for the absence of a shared, vital attention to Christ&r
New Media
Technology does not make people smarter, but it can help them to connect to a cause in which they believe.
Signs Of the Times
The second Synod of Bishops for Africa will spotlight the “forgotten wars” that are no longer on the media radar but cause daily suffering.
Signs Of the Times
Christian girls in the Gaza Strip are under pressure to wear Islamic dress in public schools.
The Vatican visitation prompts reflection on a religious divide.