The USCCB has inaugurated a new website on the new translation of nbsp the nbsp Roman Missal the book used in the celebration of the Mass nbsp nbsp The website includes nbsp background history relevant documents FAQs and the like--as an aid nbsp to the church s transition to the new Missal whi

As I mentioned in last week s Of Many Things the Culture section will frequently feature online-only content especially helpful nbsp for those interested in limited-run nbsp exhibits movies and shows nbsp Here is a lovely review for example by Leo J O Donovan SJ president emeritus of Georg

The New York Times editorial on Sunday 8 23 09 had more information than I was able to impart in my blog ldquo Who Are the Uninsured rdquo last week about one group within the nearly 46 million people in the U S without health insurance the 13 million young adults aged 19-29 This informat

The White House has decided to keep Fed Chair Ben Bernanke and the Justice Department has decided to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate allegations that the CIA broke the law by torturing prisoners The special prosecutor John Durham has served both Republican and Democratic Attorneys Gen

nbsp I was both surprised and chagrined to see the reaction against the views expressed in an Op Ed piece in the Wall St Journal on Aug 12 2009 ldquo The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare rdquo by John Mackey co-founder and C E O of Whole Foods Market Inc The opinion has ignited a boyco

Last night ldquo Mad Men rdquo viewers must have wondered if they had mistakenly tuned into another AMC show nbsp The first few seconds of the nbsp episode nbsp began with a piano riff and then surprisingly the screen filling with the image of a voluptuous Ann-Margret singing the openi

Politico com has a great article today detailing some of the more outrageous comments made by members of Congress this August Neither party has a monopoly on foolishness nor even on Nazi-metaphors which are worse than foolish Political rhetoric can and should get heated at times and the image of

So says Phil Fox Rose in this post on Bustedhalo entitled For I Was Ill and You Cared for Me nbsp People of faith are not of one political party or the other mdash not all conservative or all progressive all right or all left But most people of faith believe as a core principle that we shou

nbsp nbsp nbsp One of my youngest daughter s friends marked the summer after her high school graduation by getting an abortion Apparently she was petrified that her father would have her slightly older boyfriend thrown in jail that she would have to put off going to college and that her mothe

Simmering tensions between the Church and the Italian Right over immigration spilled out over the weekend after the Italian bishops joined UN criticism of the way international ships recently left 73 Africans on a raft to die of dehydration ignoring their pleas for help Only five survived The bis

Thanks to an alert reader who spotted this in the Letters section of the London Tablet nbsp In my earlier post on the decision of the archbishop of Tulsa to nbsp celebrate Masses ad orientem nbsp I included nbsp the Tablet s editorial about Archbishop Vincent Nichols Westminster communications

The church doesn t think that there s much conflict between evolution and faith the Vatican said as much just this year nbsp Still the battle between Darwin fans and God fans continues to rage nbsp Now here s Robert Wright author of The Evolution of God in the New York Times today on nbsp

Did Jesus laugh nbsp Most likely nbsp nbsp Do I like to laugh nbsp Most definitely nbsp nbsp Anyway this is just for fun nbsp I don t think we had our blog up and running when this thing came out nbsp Hope you enjoy it nbsp If you steal any of these jokes at least footnote me

nbsp That s what Scott Simon on NPR s Weekend Edition asked me the other day nbsp nbsp Here s my answer from today s show along with some reflections on an occasion when humor went too far nbsp The America piece on humor that Mr Simon mentions at the beginning is The Most Infallible Sign

Roland Joffe director of The Mission a movie about the Jesuit reductions that I hope that you ve seen is doing a new movie on St Josemaria Escriva founder of Opus Dei nbsp Laurie Goodstein has the story in today s New York Times nbsp The project was initiated by a member of Opus Dei is p

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp With this Gospel reading John closes his long discourse about the bread of life a discourse occasioned by Jesus feeding bread to thousands nbsp Here John repeats old themes doubts and inability to believe even betrayal nbsp Also here John repeats his claim that in

Sandra Schneiders a member of Sisters Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary of Monroe Mich is a professor of New Testament Studies and Christian Spirituality at the Jesuit School of Theology Berkeley Calif nbsp She is also the author of several books on religious life after Vatican II n

Cambridge MA This is the third of five reflections on my recent trip to India my 12th or 13th to the subcontinent After some general comments on why I love visiting India and on caste I turn now to one of the simplest and best religious opportunities available to those who visit India and avoid

Who knew the Scots placed such a high value on compassion The land of Henry Knox champion of Calvinism and Father of Presbyterianism of forbidding landscapes and cold castles Scotland released Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi the only person convicted in the 1988 bombing of a PanAm jetliner over L