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Father Damien held up by America's most wanted
Columns
There is no perfect way to measure as complex a condition as poverty.
Theater
Liv Ullmann talks about faith, Ingmar Bergman and directing "A Streetcar Named Desire."
Signs Of the Times
The bishops of Nigeria blame government inaction for the death of more than 2,000 people during a recent uprising by an extremist Islamic group.
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
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
Of Many Things
Before work each morning President Barack Obama prayerfully reads a passage of Scripture sent him by the Rev. Joshua DuBois, the young Pentecostal preacher who is his director of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. I wonder whether on one of those mornings the president has pondered Lk 11:24-
How U.S. economists missed the Great Recession
In All Things
Cambridge MA We are now safely into Fall and so it is really time to clear off my desk of books that came in during the summer that is to say books that were sent to me sometimes from friends or authors I rsquo ve known over the years and sometimes out of the blue In front of me right now ar
In All Things
nbsp nbsp nbsp Our daughter s best friend got married over Labor Day weekend Our families met in 1986 when our oldest girls were three years old It was a beautiful wedding in beautiful Monterey where the newlyweds live The wedding theme was oceanic and tropical the bridesmaids in slim stra
The Good Word
nbsp Sunday s Gospel falls under the shadow of the second prediction of Jesus death and resurrection nbsp By writing in this way Mark nbsp wants the disciple of Jesus to look upon hardships and trials - the cross of the disciple - as things which should be understood to nbsp imitate both Jesus
In All Things
The New Republic has an interesting review of Pope Benedict s encyclical Caritas in Veritate I think it speaks well of both that non-Catholic journal and of the substantiveness of Pope Benedict s thought that they even took cognizance of it and did so more thoughtfully than many Catholic commenta
In All Things
The mainstream media of which this journal is a part relies on reporting on evidence on weighing a variety of opinions on controversial topics etc and generally I think the MSM does a fine job Certainly the press makes all politicians of all ideological stripes uncomfortable and accountable
In All Things
I ve spoken today to bishops and to people who have also spoken to bishops about yesterday s story see my post on next year s papal visit to the UK which will be only the second in British history the first was John Paul II s in 1982 What I ve learned 1 Both Rome and the Church in the UK w
In All Things
Much attention has rightly been focussed on the irrational aspects of right-wing protesters especially those whose irrationality is rooted in racism But the Left has its irrationalities as well and some of them are on full display these days The most obvious was the sad spectacle of the rostrum
In All Things
The 28 September issue of America has a very interesting article by Alfred McBride titled A Sturdy Framework A Defense of the Bishops New High School Catechesis Recently on this blog I tried to buck up William O Malley s splendid article raising questions about the new US Bishops document o
In All Things
After a night that exploded in looting gunfire and teargas and a day of ldquo absolute chaos rdquo in the capital city events on the ground in Honduras are escalating dangerously out of control Patrick Ahern a U S journalist based in Tegucigalpa told America today Thousands of demonstrators