I received an email this morning from a dear friend in Paris to whom I had written yesterday congratulating him on the new nuncio being sent to Avenue President Wilson the French nunciature Among other things my correspondent wrote For Europeans the battle Obama is forced to fight on the hea

The banking industry is objecting to two government initiatives which leads me to the conclusion that both programs should go forward quickly The first and funniest in its way is the Obama administration rsquo s decision to enact a government takeover of the student loan business That rsquo s

Charles K Wilber author of Misleading Indicators How U S Economists Missed the Great Recession will be responding to readers question this Friday September 25 So if you haven t already read his article and respond with your own comment or question Wilber a professor emeritus of economics

The second reading for the 26th nbsp Sunday in Ordinary Time is another no-holds-barred passage from James 5 1-6 Come now you rich weep and wail over your impending miseries Your wealth has rotted away your clothes have become moth-eaten your gold and silver have corroded and that corrosion wil

NBC spent millions hyping the debut of ldquo The Jay Leno Show rdquo which appeared in the coveted 10 00 PM slot for the first time on Monday Sept 14 TV viewers accustomed to the 11 35 ldquo Tonight Show with Jay Leno rdquo wondered what the variety and talk show would be like in prime time

Normally on the blog I highlight online content for the Culture section which might otherwise escape the view of the print audience but today I wanted to call your attention to a terrific nbsp piece now on our site and which will appear in this week s issue Fr Robert Lauder s nbsp interview wit

The Gospel passage for the Feast of Saint Matthew is Matthew 9 9-13 As Jesus passed by he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the customs post He said to him Follow me And he got up and followed him While he was at table in his house many tax collectors and sinners cameand sat with Jesus and his

A lot of readers of this blog are interested in or involved with lay ministry and the Graduate School of Religion here at Fordham where I teach has sponsored two conferences in the last two years on this topic focusing in particular on diving more deeply into Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the L

The Baucus Health Care Reform bill has been criticized by Archbishop Raymond Burke Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura In an interview with Fox News the former Archbishop of St Louis said that despite the claims of Baucus himself the bill does provides a mandate for abortion I am not sure wh

Cambridge MA There is an unexpected and excellent reflection on prayer in today rsquo s New York Times Magazine Is there a Right Way to Pray by Zev Chafets It is definitely worth a look and Chafets research speaks for itself nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp All I can do here is share with you a conn

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Two observations are in order about this Gospel nbsp First we find the words of Jesus about service to others as the means to greatness in his Kingdom to be placed after the prediction of his passion and death and resurrection nbsp As we know Mark had a choice of mater

Our online editor Tim Reidy and I are currently battling for supremacy in the contest of who is the bigger Mad Men fan nbsp Here we are on this week s podcast talking about the philosophical and theological underpinnings of the hit AMC show--not to mention the hidden meanings in its name how

Here is a nbsp remarkable piece by Donald Wuerl the archbishop of Washington in Politics Daily nbsp which sounds almost like a homily reminding readers that health care is an issue that has long been part of Catholic social teaching h t to Grant Gallicho at Dotcommonweal We teach that health

I was about to post on the exciting arrival in England of St Therese of Lisieux s relics when I saw what Pope Benedict XVI yesterday told the Brazilian bishops He said The lay faithful must undertake to give expression in real life - also through political commitment - to the Christian view o

Christmas came early this year Of all the things I would like from Santa nothing suits me more than to have a libertarian candidate in a prominent race and in my home state of Connecticut no less Yesterday on MSNCB rsquo s Morning Joe television show economist Peter Schiff announced his candi

The September 14-21 issue of America features one of the most frankly and therefore for a Catholic magazine refreshingly written pieces I ve read in the magazine over the last fifteen years It is by William J O Malley Faulty Guidance A New Framework for High School Catechesis Fails to Persu

The result of Rome s investigation known as an apostolic visitation into the Legionaries of Christ will result in either the dissolution or the re-founding of the order according to sources close to the Legionaries in Spain There a Basque bishop Ricardo Blazquez is in charge of the visitati

Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum nbsp Oprah Winfrey s Book Club has chosen Say You re One of Them the best-selling short-story collection by Uwem Akpan S J the Nigerian Jesuit who you may have first read about and read he wrote for us several years ago in our pages nbsp Here s a brief Of Man

In All Things has received a copy of an email sent to the Notre Dame Family from University President Father John I Jenkins C S C In it Father Jenkins outlines ways for Notre Dame to become more involved in the pro-life effort One of the canards thrown at Father Jenkins during the controve