Rowan Williams on the faith of Dostoevsky

Rowan Williams considers Dostoevsky's Christianity

Bishop Erwin Krautler of Xingu, Brazil, remembers the first time he received a death threat. “It was the exact day I completed 25 years as a bishop,” he recalled. Later that year, a local paper even announced the day his assassination would be expected. Bishop Krautler says there are sev

Most men--myself included--are tough nuts to crack.

The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Zimbabwe will use its nationwide network to rally support for rebuilding Zimbabwe following the recent formation of a unity government. “The new administration will need to work hard to end the human suffering” in Zimbabwe, which faces ram

Arab Christians Assess Election Results ISRAEL-- Though former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-line Likud Party and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni’s more moderate Kadima Party both claimed victory in the Feb. 10 Israeli elections, a certain beneficiary of their virtual tie

• The John Paul II Foundation for the Sahel has announced that it donated more than $2 million last year to fight desertification and promote rural development in nine African countries. • Bishop Jesús González de Zarate Salas of Caracas, Venezuela, said on Feb. 15 that the

Lift High the Cross Students returning to class this semester at Boston College found a surprise: crucifixes adorning their classrooms. This traditional Catholic image has been a lightning rod in many Catholic colleges and universities over the last few decades, as schools struggled to make all stud

It was an apology of sorts -- but not of the sort to make amends The Holocaust-denying schismatic British bishop whose rehabilitation by the Vatican sparked an international row apologised last night for remarks in which he denied the scale of the Nazis genocidal campaign against the Jews The a

nbsp Beloved Christ suffered for sins once the righteous for the sake of the unrighteous that he might lead you to God Put to death in the flesh he was brought to life in the Spirit In it he also went to preach to the spirits in prison who had once been disobedient while God patiently waited i

God is in the details is one of those strange aphorisms that has longer legs than it should I do not suspect to find God going through the details of President Obama rsquo s newly minted budget But it is clear that what one will find therein is the other half of the title of his book If his c

Ash Wednesday in my stepmother rsquo s Alzheimer rsquo s complex saw twenty or so residents aged 80 to 105 sitting in the Solarium in blank silence Surely here we needed no ashes to ldquo Remember man that thou art dust and to dust thou shall return rdquo Every patient in this locked facility

Might the shortly-to-retire Archbishop of Westminster sit in the House of Lords -- the first Catholic bishop since the Reformation to do so The question has been raised in The Tablet which this week interviews the prime minister Gordon Brown and finds him open to the idea So when the cardinal r

The Supreme Court waded into the murky waters of the Establishment Clause yesterday and reached a surprising unanimous verdict In Utah a town park holds many monuments one of them to the Ten Commandments A fringe religious group called Summum that combines elements of pseudo-Christian Gnosticis

Have you ever noticed that Jesus begins and ends his public ministry in the wilderness ?

Ash Wednesday whose ashes symbolize mourning and penitence is also it seems to me a period of joyous return The Apostle Paul captures this sense of joy in the second reading today 2 Corinthians 5 20-6 2 Paul has written earlier in 2 Cor 5 that the love of Christ urges him on in his ministry

President Barack Obama rsquo s entrance into the House chamber even more than the Inauguration sent chills up my spine This scene is more familiar than an Inauguration and just so to see Obama come down the aisle after the Sargeant-of-Arms announces Madame Speaker the President of the United

Happy Ash Wednesday As I mentioned in an Of Many Things column a few years ago an in an NPR piece my Lenten sacrifices come to me from a Jewish friend named Rob with whom I roomed in college and his family At the time my mostly Jewish friends meaning that most of my friends were Jewish n

Not of the Washington but of the Los Angeles sort In a few days the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress will set sail yet again with tens of thousands of Catholics and friends on board for music workshops lectures panels liturgy and all manner of Catholic revelry and reverie In the

The President addresses a joint session of Congress for the first time tonight Despite the lack of Republican support for his stimulus bill and the churlish and I suspect risky refusal of some GOP governors to receive some of the federal money in that bill look for President Obama to continue to