The Israeli reprisal in Gaza is brutal but that does not justify the moral ignorance of protesters in European capitals and even New York City who condemn the Israeli reaction and not the action to which it was a response One protester on Fifth Avenue carried the sign Death to all Juice but his

Here is Michael Paulson of The Boston Globe interviewing the always-interesting always-provocative always-hardworking always generous-with-his-time always-worth-listening-to Richard McBrien the Catholic theologian teaching at Notre Dame nbsp I ve always profited from Father McBrien s wri

Laurie Laurie Goodstein the religion reporter at The New York Times has a fascinating nbsp three-part series on the surge in foreign priests serving in parishes in the United States nbsp There are probably few parishes in the States who have not been touched by this underreported and misunders

There was nothing so vulnerable in the ancient world as the life of a child The same is true in many ways even today a child s life is dependent upon those who will care for that child before the child can even know faith or trust her life is in the hands of others Yet other vulnerabilities

The BBC has the correct headline nbsp on Pope Benedict s curial speech story Pope attacks blurring of gender is far more accurate than all those headlines claiming nbsp that saving gay people is as important as saving the rainforests and similar riffs on Reuters nbsp misleading nbsp -- s

Editorial director Karen Sue Smith reflects on the importance of slowing down during the Christmas season Tim Reidy

I have determined to spend the last week of Advent and the first week of Christmas meditating and reflecting on Edward Hicks rsquo The Peaceable Kingdom Hicks a Pennsylvania Quaker 1780-1849 was an autodidact as a painter although later in life he trained apprentices including the importan

Here s a story about St Joseph the hidden man of Christmas on Slate com What does his story have to say to modern-day believers Plenty For this story I interviewed both Lawrence Cunningham professor of theology at Notre Dame and Pheme Perkins professor of New Testament at Boston Col

The Holy Father rsquo s Ecology of Man speech has garnered a great deal of attention because one sentence in a very long speech made reference to the ways in which human sexuality falls short of the Gospel ideals What rsquo s often expressed and understood with the term lsquo gender rsquo is

Mark s Gospel has been called The Gospel that tells of Jesus who announced the Kingdom of God Certainly the Gospel does tell that story It emphasizes at least for awhile the wondrous deeds of Jesus These are miracles that seem only possible if God does them indeed the conscious hist

From Reuters today VATICAN CITY Reuters - Pope Benedict said on Monday that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behaviour was just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction nbsp The Church should also protect man from the destruction of himself A sort of ecology of m

Greg Shemitz a photojournalist just sent us this link to his photos available online on his website of Cardinal Dulles funeral nbsp Mr Shemitz was on assignment for Catholic News Service nbsp Among them are this one of Jesuit priests processing past the casket of Cardinal Dulles nbsp

Rick Warren crashed George and Ali Stephanopoulos rsquo s Christmas party last night Not in the flesh of course but as a topic of conversation Washington rsquo s glitterati could not help themselves With the nation in the throes of a full-fledged economic crisis and with American troops still f

Restoring the Balance with Iran; A Dark Christmas

Each member of the Holy Family offers a distinct lesson for Christmas.

A Nativity encounter in the Deep South

Fourth in a series for Advent and Christmas