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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.
Of Many Things
War can never be understood as a rational exercise, for sin is by definition irrational.
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.
The theology behind the permanent diaconate
Theater
The play of the year is not on Broadway and was not featured at the recent Tony Awards. It is a sprawling yet intimate drama set in a brothel in the war-torn Congolese jungle, with the decidedly gloomy title “Ruined.” That may sound like unlikely hit material, but it is hard to argue wit
Signs Of the Times
Ethical values are needed to overcome the current global economic crisis, said Pope Benedict XVI in Caritas in Veritate.
Signs Of the Times
The ambiguities in a seven-year-old document from Catholic and Jewish dialogue partners are continuing to cause confusion.
Signs Of the Times
Christian and Muslim leaders called two bomb blasts in Jakarta on July 17 "uncivilized acts" and urged the police to apprehend the culprits.
Editorials
In state houses and board rooms across the country, a failure to come together
Signs Of the Times
Pope Benedict XVI underwent a procedure under local anesthesia to repair a fractured right wrist.
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
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.
In All Things
Fascinating nbsp Michael Paulson s blog Articles of Faith nbsp has this story of a Vermont museum featuring a display of Wampum belts of faith with a Jesuit connection Two 17th century beaded wampum belts made by Native Americans in New England for French Jesuit missionaries as expressions
In All Things
I wanted to say something on the Anglican Communion s apparently inevitable slide into schism but nbsp today rather than document disintegration I d rather nbsp edify nbsp nbsp This may be because I m just back from Worth Abbey a Benedictine monastery an hour south of London where I went for