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

My bad my very bad I am informed by email from my friend and erstwhile ideological disputant Rick Garnett of the blog Mirror of Justice that I used a term in yesterday rsquo s post that is considered vulgar abroad nbsp Having now found out its meaning I do not wish to repeat it even once I

Sen Max Baucus has introduced a health care reform that has generally been considered the bill most likely to become the basis for on-going negotiations Crafted with a view towards winning the support of at least a handful of Republicans the Baucus proposal is thought to have the best shot at win

Not long after I posted on the need for some pro-lifers to learn the democratic and Christian art of civility the Catholic News Agency -- not to be confused with the highly respected Church-run Catholic News Service -- ran an item provocatively entitled Murder of Michigan pro-lifer a lsquo non-

Talks with between the Vatican and the formerly breakaway Society of St Pius X are about to begin in late October nbsp As our former associate and longtime and beloved editor John W Donohue used to say Stay tuned nbsp Here s the story from Zenit VATICAN CITY SEPT 15 2009 Zenit or

When I sat down to my computer Monday morning to write about the racial overtones in some of the anti-Obama protesters I had not read Maureen Dowd rsquo s column in the New York Times All weekend I had been wrestling with the question of whether or not to raise the issue of racism and tried to co

There seems to be an H1N1-like outbreak of namecalling and general well outspokenness in the past few days nbsp From the now-famous Congressman-slash-pariah or slash-folk-hero depending on your political views Joe Wilson You lie to an apoplectic nbsp Serena Williams mouthing off to the l