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In All Things
Lent is a season of prayer and penance A traditional nbsp instinctive reaction to the coming of Lent is to ask What penance will I do nbsp What will I give up nbsp More nbsp recently nbsp we have been challenged to ask more positively nbsp What out of a spirit of generosity or penance
In All Things
As we reported on this blog the Vatican has announced that has scheduled an official visitation of women s religious orders next year Typically visitations and no the term has nothing to do with Mary and Elizabeth are undertaken to correct some kind of problematic situation in a dioces
In All Things
The nomination of Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to be Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services has done more to ignite the intra-Catholic culture wars even than President Obama rsquo s decision to reverse the Mexico City policy As the announcement neared Catholic partisans of a
The Good Word
nbsp nbsp This brief notice Mark gives illustrates a number of points of his interest as he writes to Christians in Rome nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp First there is the fundamental central interest of the public life of Jesus the announcement of the presence of the Kingdom of God nbsp This means
The Good Word
The biblical passage which appears below and the subsequent paragraph are taken from the 2009 lenten meditations of the Anglican Church of Canada for March 27 hellip a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting lsquo Have mercy on me Lord Son of David my daughter is tor
The Good Word
R R Reno has judged me in a new post today http www firstthings com onthesquare p 1324 to be an example of the wagon-circling guild mentality of so many contemporary biblical scholars More than a circler of wagons though my earlier response to him is the equivalent of a clarion call Ti
In All Things
The Obama administration has decided to repeal a last-minute Bush administration regulation granting wide protections to health care workers from being fired or otherwise penalized for a religiously based unwillingness to perform acts they find morally objectionable The decision is regrettable even
Signs Of the Times
Pope Benedict XVI met privately on Feb. 18 with Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House of Representa-tives, and told her that all Catholics, especially those who are lawmakers, must work to protect human life at every stage. “His Holiness took the opportunity to speak of the requirements of t
Signs Of the Times
Bishop-designate Gerhard Wagner has asked Pope Benedict XVI to withdraw his nomination as auxiliary bishop of Linz, in the face of fierce criticism. The uproar stemmed mainly from comments Wagner made implying that Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was a punishment from God for sins committed in New Orlean
Letters
Obama’s First Days Vincent Rougeau’s essay, “Real Americans, Real Catholics” (2/16), raises the question of how we can build common ground with those who are visibly angry over having lost the election and the Catholic vote on Nov. 4. I believe that the majority of Catholic v
This Lent and every Lent, we Christians profess that “the kindness and generous love of God our Savior has appeared” (Ti 3:4).
In the March 9 issue of America Patrick and Claudette McDonald make the case that married couples should cultivate the ancient practice of lectio divina to ground their relationship in Gods love. Over the years, America has published several articles on lectio divina. A selection appears below:
Ever Ancient, Ever New: Lectio divina is not just for monastics anymore.
Signs Of the Times
In Israel, the government is like a broken glass shattered into a bunch of little pieces."
Signs Of the Times
Divisions within the worldwide Anglican Communion impoverish all of Christianity, said Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor of Westminster during a speech to the General Synod of the Church of England on Feb. 9. “Let me be frank,” Murphy-O’Connor told the governing body of the An
Signs Of the Times
Koreas first cardinal, an outspoken defender of human rights, died in Seoul, South Korea, on Feb. 16. At the time of his death, Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan was the longest-serving cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. Born in Daegu in May 1922, the late cardinal was ordained a priest in 1951. Aft