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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.
New Media
Technology does not make people smarter, but it can help them to connect to a cause in which they believe.
The Vatican visitation prompts reflection on a religious divide.
The Good Word
An overarching point of Hebrews chapter four is that we are destined for a sabbath rest so then a sabbath rest still remains for the people of God for those who enter God s rest also cease from their labors as God did from his Hebrews 4 9-10 NRSV This is a heavenly image especially for a wo
In All Things
It is difficult not to feel ambivalent about the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama It turns out that the ldquo we rdquo in ldquo Yes We Can rdquo was even broader than the 53 percent of Americans who voted for him last November But while I count myself as a fan and
In All Things
Cambridge MA As promised in my last entry for the next several weeks I will share this space with Sri Murali Manohar who has kindly agreed to share with me a conversation on matters of interest to Hindus and Christians and hopefully to a wider range of readers interested in religion today What
In All Things
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case Salazar v Bouno yesterday The case revolves around a cross erected as a war memorial in the Mojave Desert that sits on federal land although the cross was first put up by the Veterans of Foreign Wars a non-governmental organization This is the f
In All Things
The church will soon have a new saint nbsp This nbsp Sunday nbsp Oct 11 Pope Benedict XVI will canonize nbsp St Damien of Molokai or St Damien de Veuster nbsp He may fairly be called--with not too much of a stretch--an American saint an immigrant who came to work nbsp on what came to b
In All Things
On Pope Benedict XVI s to-do list when he comes to the UK next year -- when and for how long are still unknowns -- could well be advocacy for the European Union Britain s euro-indifference has hardened in recent years into a hostility to all things EU to the point where Catholic advocacy of the
In All Things
Writers like to be noticed by the mainstream media so perhaps I should be flattered that the Wall Street Journal took cognizance of my existence yesterday William McGurn who contributes to the venerable newspaper rsquo s Mainstreet blog wrote about how pro-life Democrats like Congressman Bart St
In All Things
Hey all you webby types reading our blog nbsp Our latest Culture section features Generation Text a piece by Mark Bauerlein a professor at Emory and author of the book The Dumbest Generation How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future Tarcher Penguin nbsp Bauer
In All Things
In writing about abortion and health care reform I have advocated that whatever legislation is finally approved should be abortion neutral Some of the more vociferous members of the pro-life community object to this phrase ndash and to what it represents ndash on the grounds that as Catholic
In All Things
The New York Times has the story nbsp The United States Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport to delay the court-ordered release of thousands of legal documents from lawsuits filed against priests accused of child sex abuse The decision leaves few
In All Things
In a bit of believe me entirely unplanned serendipity both America and Commonweal this week have superb articles by American nuns on the apostolic visitation of women religious in the United States nbsp I urge you to read both nbsp Ours by Sister Ilia Delio a Franciscan sister and professo
In All Things
Is the President right to question the advice of his military advisers You wouldn rsquo t think so to hear some of the conservative and neo-con pundits excoriate President Obama for refusing to simply accept General Stanley McChrystal rsquo s war plan for Afghanistan Yesterday National Security A