More on the protean complicated soon-to-be-Blessed John Henry Newman in the newly rescued Boston Globe Because of his protean mind and voluminous writings then he is beloved by groups that are often at loggerheads More traditional Catholics admire Newman s elegant apologias for Catholicism

I love Chris Matthews He has an uncanny ability to locate his interlocutor rsquo s jugular and go for it So it was the last two nights when he was discussing the GOP rsquo s credibility or lack thereof on scientific issues Tuesday night in a discussion with GOP Conference Chairman Mike Spence

CONGRATULATIONS 100 Years Old nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp ldquo The Pontifical Biblical Institute P B I is a university-level institution of the Holy See It was established by Pope Pius X with the Apostolic Letter Vinea electa of May 7 1909 in order to be a center of higher studie

When Pope Benedict XVI steps off his plane in Amman Friday morning King Abdullah II will be there to greet him in person The palace announced this week that in a break with protocol King Abdullah II had chosen to welcome the Holy Father personally The royal welcome will be a token of the high re

Who has the stature to bring together a crowd of talented performers so diverse as to include Bruce Springsteen Dave Matthews Joan Baez Dar Williams Emmylou Harris Kris Kristofferson Michael Franti Tom Morello Arlo Guthrie Roger McGuinn Steve Earle dozens more of the shining lights of Ame

In case you haven t noticed it yet we ve just posted a Web-only article by Pepperdine law professor Douglas W Kmiec on the search for a new Supreme Court Justice In The Case for Empathy Kmiec addresses the conservative idealogues who see empathy as merely a code word for abortion rights or o

God is so good to me While I pray to have no enemies private or public I also pray that if I must have an enemy it be someone like Patrick Reilly the President of the Cardinal Newman Society Yesterday I called attention to an interview he gave NPR in which he compared President Obama to Adolp

Here s nbsp one of the most nbsp cogent reasons why the New York State Legislature shouldn t nbsp open a window to extend nbsp the statute of limitations for sexual abuse cases in the Catholic church from Commonweal s lead editorial this week nbsp And I emphasize the Catholic church nbsp nbsp

I just listened to a taped interview on NPR with Patrick Reilly the President of the Cardinal Newman Society that has led the opposition to President Obama rsquo s speaking at Notre Dame rsquo s commencement I hope those bishops who in good faith nbsp have taken the same position as Mr Reilly l

The Powerball Jackpot worth 144 million won April 8 was claimed yesterday but not by the winner Choosing to forgo his 15 minutes of fame the winner sent his lawyer and the check was made out to a Limited-Liability Corporation so that the winner can remain anonymous This morning rsquo s Washing

I have tried to suggest that lots of music reviews are humid with theological atmospherics Now comes this review in today s New York Times by Ben Brantley of a new production here in NYC starring Sherie Rene Scott at the Second Stage Theater It is titled Everyday Rapture Brantley reports on S

One of my favorite things about the Internet are wild things like this nbsp nbsp May of course is Mary s month and my friends at nbsp Order of Malta more specifically representatives from nbsp the Order of Malta worldwide are in Lourdes this week for their annual pilgrimage when they take

nbsp Don t miss a terrific review of two hot shows on Broadway with explicit and implicit religious themes--Freidrich Schiller s old chestnut Mary Stuart brought to exciting new life by Janet McTeer and Harriet Walter and Eugene Ionesco s Exit the King with nbsp Geoffrey Rush Susan Sarando

Many nbsp in the pro-life movement seem to agree that we nbsp need not only new strategies since public opinion seems more or less nbsp fixed nbsp but also nbsp a new language nbsp Well here s something new nbsp Now nbsp I m not suggesting that we move away from nbsp anything in the Catholi

Last week I invoked the memory of Msgr John Tracy Ellis the great Church historian who was my mentor Whenever Msgr rsquo s memory comes to my mind it tends to stay there and this weekend found me seeing contemporary events in the Church through the clarifying lens of history Clemens August Dr

Sister Marilyn Lacey rsquo s account of her journey to and through the experience of working with refugees can be read first of all as an adventure story It is her own adventure but also that of the many refugees she meets told with a simple directness that engages the reader from the outset Li

Roger Collins' history of the papacy, reviewed

Currently, if anything about Christianity is taught, it is about the Crusades and the Inquisition. There is no teaching of comparative religion.

May presents us with many celebratory occasions.