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In All Things
Is there any group in the American Catholic church that has done so much while receiving so little appreciation than Catholic sisters No Women religious helped to build our church teach our children nurse our infants care for our elderly feed our poor manage our parishes and spread the
In All Things
The President-Elect needs to focus like a laser on the economic crisis once he takes office next month Not only is there a great deal of human suffering wrapped inside the rising unemployment numbers but a host of other governmental challenges become more difficult the longer the economic downturn
The Good Word
Jesus was on the cross three hours this thought makes us realize that Mark has chosen to tell his readers only a few moments of that terrible time the taunts against him by passers-by who recall his statement about destroying the Temple and by the chief priests and scribes who call for a s
The Good Word
Shout for joy Sing joyfully Be glad and exult with all your heart On that day it shall be said Fear not be not discouraged The Lord your God is in your midst A mighty savior He will sing joyfully because of you And renew you in His love Zephaniah 3 14-18
In All Things
As a pro life grandmother I am grateful for the moral teaching of the new Vatican Instruction Dignitas Personae I d also like to voice to a few added points on family concerns First off all of us who recognize the conceptus as a new member of the human family will be happy to find the embry
In All Things
It is not usual to commemorate especially 27th anniversaries Perhaps fittingly since he died at age 27 the 27th anniversary of Bobby Sands lingering death by hunger strike at Long Kesh prison in Northern Ireland in 1981 gets powerfully evoked and the complex issues around it penetratingly r
In All Things
Every undergraduate in political science has the same epiphany when they first see the set of bound volumes known as the federal tax code Why not get rid of all those special interest tax breaks and deductions and lower the tax rate for everybody The idea like the Roman Rite has a noble simplici
The Good Word
O God only you are the one I reverence and adore I have no other God For you my soul is thirsting My body pines for you like a dry weary land without water I look to see your face for your love for me is better than life My soul clings to you Your hands surely hold me fast
In All Things
For those culture vultures out there America has just posted two Web-only items of note The first is a review of the film Doubt by Michael V Tueth S J a professor of communications at Fordham University and a frequent contributor to our pages Doubt of course is based on the Tony-award win
In All Things
From the New York Province of the Society of Jesus Archbishop Sambi the papal nuncio to the U S has sent word to the New York Province that Edward Cardinal Egan has been designated by the Holy Father to preside at Thursday s funeral Mass for Avery Cardinal Dulles SJ nbsp Archbishop Sambi wi
In All Things
John F Kennedy was not a physicist so when he said that America would put a man on the moon within a decade he was not making a scientific prediction JFK had confidence in American technology and the competitive spirit of man to get us there Had he lived and had no American walked on the moon b
The sun doesn’t shine much in the Bronx neighborhood where John Patrick Shanley’s powerful film, Doubt, is set. The atmosphere is gray and cold; its melancholy mood is disturbed only once in the film by a fierce wind storm that blows down many of the bare limbs of the convent trees. The winds of change are indeed blowing in the Catholic Church in 1964, and Sister Aloysius Beauvier, the principal of St. Nicholas parish school, seems determined to protect her domain from any corrupting influences that might be in the air.
Editorials
From 2008: can prolifers work with the Obama administration to reduce abortions?
A country rich in resources remains mired in poverty.
Letters
A Return to Collegiality Thank you for your strong endorsement of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (Current Comment, 12/8). It should be noted that in recent years the Vatican, operating on a narrower understanding of episcopal collegiality, has limited the authority of such conferences. At t
Books
This is the third and final volume of a historical and systematic overview of comparative theologies of the church A significant contribution to the contemporary debates on ecclesiology among the churches it follows two comparative historical volumes providing a theology ldquo from below rdquo
Columns
'The sad reality is that extremists on both sides are alienating citizens from one another.'
Faith in Focus
Third in a series for Advent and Christmas
