Celebrating All Saints Day today Pope Benedict XVI noted that it was the tenth anniversary of a historic agreement between Lutherans and Catholics which he hoped will help bring forward the path towards the full visible unity of all the disciples of Christ Oddly the Times headlines this Pop

In response to various reports over the upcoming apostolic constitution on admitting Anglicans into the church Cardinal William Levada through the Vatican s press officer Frederico Lombardi S J nbsp took the unusual step of issuing this clarification to some concerns raised by some journalis

Just in time for Halloween I saw the comedy-horror movie Zombieland this week a film about a post-apocalyptic world in which nearly every human being has been infected with a condition that turns them into cannibalistic zombies I rsquo m told this is different from the type of zombies that are d

The former Archbishop of Westminster Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O Connor was the Catholic chair of the Anglican-Roman Catholic dialogue commission ARCIC for 16 years His speech last night at a Benedictine monastery Worth Abbey -- ARCIC dead in the water or money in the bank -- had been planned

For a moment I thought it was just an act Surely Tracy Morgan mdash the man who discussed crazy animals in his role as Brian Fellows on Saturday Night Live the man whose ldquo 30 Rock rdquo character Tracy Jordan utters lines like I watched Boston Legal nine times before I realized it w

In my last post on In All Things I mentioned that Time magazine had purchased a house in Detroit so they could cover the city s news up close and personal The latest blog entry by the Time writers focuses on U of D Jesuit High School and Academy my alma mater nbsp The blog writer dubs UD High th

Brother Jack Curran F S C at Bethelehem University has asked us to post this news release about the detention of a Bethelehem University student Seeking HELP for a Bethlehem University Student28 October 2009 nbsp Earlier today we learned that Ms Berlanty Azzam a 4th year student enrolled at Be

If you rsquo re at the Church of St Ignatius Loyola in New York on Sunday and able to dodge the marathoners you rsquo ll see something that few people ever see a Jesuit final vow Mass After 21 years as a Jesuit I ve been invited as we say in the Society of Jesus to pronounce final vows nb

This week in the nbsp Culture section Leo O Donovan SJ our go-to guy for all things nbsp in the world of fine arts nbsp has a marvelous review in our current issue on the spiritual eye of the Russian painter Vasily Kandinsky here nbsp Kandinsky is the focus of a new exhibit at the Guggenheim M

Uwem Akpan the Nigerian Jesuit and author of the award-winning Say You re One of Them will be appearing on Oprah Winfrey s show on a worldwide webcast on Nov 9 nbsp the first time Ms Winfrey is doing this for one of her authors nbsp Here s how her website describes it On Monday Novembe

Yesterday Interior Secretary Ken Salazar signed the papers allowing construction to proceed on a monument to the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr on the National Mall here in Washington This is an important thing and I am not sure I would have known how important until a couple of years ago I try

The first reading for the Solemnity of All Saints is Revelation 7 2-4 9-14 what has been omitted from this reading verses 5-8 is simply the listing of the 12 tribes of Israel by name and the numeration of the 12 000 called from each tribe The reading as it appears in the lectionary begins with

A tip from our friend Robert Mickens the Rome correspondent for nbsp the London Tablet nbsp He wrote this morning Andrea Tornielli writes in Il Giornale today that publication of the new Apostolic Constitution establishing the entrance of Anglicans into the Catholic Church is being held up by a

To stay or not to stay that is the question While President Obama from his encampment at Elsinore on the Potomac continued to agonize over his rotten options in the state of Afghanistan in a period of just two days U S forces there suffered a series of terrible losses in what has been the deadli

The Washington Post is reporting on its front page this morning that President Obama has called for a province-by-province analysis of Afghanistan assessing which areas are in need of additional help from the U S and which have local governments that are in sufficient control on their own Such

When I was 9 years old I spied an advertisement in a magazine for a plastic statue of St Jude I can rsquo t imagine which magazine this could have been since my parents weren rsquo t in the habit of leaving Catholic publications lying around the house but apparently the photo of the statue was