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In All Things
Yesterday rsquo s Washington Post had a story about an Episcopalian church in Virginia that is trying to decide whether or not to stay in the Episcopal Church or to break off and join the more conservative Anglican Church in North America Already four dioceses have made the break and dozens of chu
In All Things
One of the comments on my post about the Sotomayor hearings claims that Trent Lott was run into the ground for far less than Sotomayor s comment about wise Latinas and their judgment I recall when Senator Lott had to resign as Majority Leader because in his effort to sing the praises of his fello
In All Things
In traveling around the United States fairly intensively for the past dozen years and participating in events for Catholic churches dioceses colleges or universities I have been surprised at and interested in the responses generated if I mention that I did think about being a priest or a religiou
In All Things
The new Washington Post-ABCNews poll shows that President Obama rsquo s approval ratings are returning to the earth rsquo s atmosphere Put differently the honeymoon is almost over And because the recession Obama inherited is still not over even though the honeymoon is views on the President rsq
The Good Word
How do you receive the word of God when you do not read This is a strange question to ask in an age of unprecedented literacy at a time when access to data texts and knowledge is constant No longer need one rely on books taken from the library you can carry Kindle and have over a thousand book
Editorials
In state houses and board rooms across the country, a failure to come together
Faith
Just as the permanent diaconate is not only for celibates, neither is it a “married ministry,” though currently most deacons are married. Rather, the permanent diaconate is a major order of ecclesial ministry open to married and to unmarried men.
Faith in Focus
My companion said it out loud first: “Carol, we’re in trouble.” She was right. Early that morning we had set off for the last leg of a five-day backpacking trek through the beautiful but challenging Weminuche Wilderness in southern Colorado. We had survived fierce sun, raging creek
This is shaping up as the season of “kindness.” I’ll cite only three book examples. First, there is On Kindness, by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $20 hardcover). Phillips is a psychoanalyst who has written 12 other books. Taylor has written acclaime
Signs Of the Times
We think that a return to the country at this time could unleash a bloodbath, said Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga.
In his new encyclical, Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth), Pope Benedict XVI makes a persuasive case that the current global financial crisis is about more than economics; it is also about ethics. As such, he provides us with a moral framework for moving forward as one human family to address the challenges facing the world today.
Signs Of the Times
In addition to giving Obama a copy of his latest encyclical, the pope also presented a copy of a recent Vatican document on biomedical ethics.
Film
The comedic grace of 'The Brothers Bloom' evokes an earlier age of cinema.
Signs Of the Times
Catholic bishops from Spain's Basque region kept quiet about the killing of priests by right-wing forces during the Spanish Civil War.
Seven things they don't teach you in formation
Faith in Focus
In far-flung places, Jesus is made present.
Signs Of the Times
Ethical values are needed to overcome the current global economic crisis, said Pope Benedict XVI in Caritas in Veritate.