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In All Things
New media has been credited with getting the story out in Iran after government censorship shut off mainstream journalism Here s a little indication that it can also be put to less-to-no good during periods of chaos and drama as Honduras is currently experiencing Father Ismael Moreno S J and hi
In All Things
A few weeks ago on retreat I was introduced to a friendly middle-aged couple nbsp I m a Catholic priest he said nbsp And I m his wife she said nbsp nbsp They prayed among the many priests sisters and brother on retreat but with a difference sometimes after meals you would see them h
In All Things
In our latest addition to our online Books amp Culture section Rev Robert E Lauder places Alice McDermott in the great pantheon of great Catholic writers Father Lauder a professor of philosophy at St John s University in New York compares McDemott s fiction to giants of the 20th century lik
In All Things
H Res 441 In the House of Representatives U S September 22 2009 Whereas the social cultural and political contributions of Catholic sisters have played a vital role in shaping life in the United States Whereas such women have joined in unique forms of intentional communitarian life dedica
In All Things
Suddenly for the first time in President Obama rsquo s presidency foreign affairs have leap-frogged over a host of domestic issues that had dominated news coverage and national attention since he took office in January The economic meltdown and health care reform have been front and center with
In All Things
Tom Reese took the words right out of my mouth nbsp When I read the New York Times story about Roman Polanski s arrest in Switzerland for having raped a 13-year old girl in 1977 I thought if he nbsp were in a collar there would be no boo-hooing about his recent nbsp plight nbsp nbsp There woul
In All Things
In an implicit rebuttal nbsp to Cardinal Sean O Malley s presiding at the funeral of Senator nbsp Edward M nbsp Kennedy as well as a more overt rebuke to the Obama administration Arcbishop Raymond Burke addressed the question of how the church should respond to nbsp Catholics in public life who d
The Good Word
This Sunday rsquo s readings all work to deepen for us a common conundrum paradox or challenge relationality mdash how any of us is related with everything else The extraordinary reading from Genesis situates the original human as ldquo alone rdquo until it has named the animals and been config
In All Things
Greyhound the bus of necessity rather than of choice for many low-income travelers around the country provides its tickets more cheaply for those who buy them online That transaction though assumes you have a credit card and internet access for online purchasing Low income people who do not ha
In All Things
Last Friday I called attention to the very fine article by Professor David Nirenberg in the current issue of The New Republic in which he reviews Pope Benedict rsquo s encyclical Caritas in Veritate And I posted a link to my initial response to Nirenberg which has itself garnered some interesting
Signs Of the Times
On the eve of the opening of the 64th General Assembly, Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan said the U.N. should embrace the notion of “the human person as the heart of all institutions."
Books
A frankly confessional memoir from a Catholic author and journalist
A defense of the bishops' new high school catechesis
Letters
An Overabundance of Hugs What a treat it was to see the cover of your Aug. 17 issue! The tiny hand being held by the elderly hands of the therapist belongs to my daughter Nora. Daystar, where Nora receives treatments, is a wonderful place that provides foster care and also respite care for infants w
Signs Of the Times
Nearly two years after a controversial presidential election prompted widespread violence, Kenya remains a country on the brink of crisis.
Signs Of the Times
The official lamented that producing urgently needed medicines is no longer driven by traditional medical ethics, but by money.
The Word
Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), Oct. 4, 2009
Books
Recently repeated cheers that only a few hundred thousand workers lost their jobs may reflect the fact that those who measure label and publicly analyze the economy are not among the 14 million unemployed Americans as of June But it is also a sigh of collective relief that so it seems the econom
