nbsp Cambridge MA I am in the midst of my ldquo Krsna in Advent rdquo series mdash nbsp the first entry posted a few days ago the next to come in a few days mdash but I cannot help but interrupt to remember two great Christian intellectuals and writers who died forty years ago on Decembe

Since lots of our readers are interested in this topic vis-a-vis our new president here is Russell Shaw writing about FOCA If you re up on this you ll know what it is If not get up on it In Our Sunday Visitor s blog nbsp the Daily Take nbsp Shaw former spokesman for the USCCB and

Here s a little piece at NPR org on the increasing popularity of the newest kind of Christmas card even among devout Christians the family card nbsp The other two are the religious card--Mary and Jesus nbsp And the secular card--snowmen and snowy villages You all know what I m talking ab

Associate Editor Matt Malone S J explains why a song from West Side Story always reminds him of Advent Tim Reidy

Guess who the Archdiocese of Brooklyn got to pitch their new television network New Evangelization Television to be available on the net too in a few weeks nbsp Our friend Greg Kandra over at The Deacon s Bench is part of this new venture which we hope will resist all of Satan s e

Guess who the Archdiocese of Brooklyn is using to sell their new television network New Evangelization Television where our friend Greg Kandra is working nbsp CNN reports nbsp James Martin SJ

On this day the Lord of hosts will provide for all peoples He will destroy death forever The Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces On that day it will be said Behold our God to whom we looked to save us This is the Lord for whom we looked Let us rejoice and be glad that he has sav

Michael Gerson begins his column this morning there is a problem with the Post website so I can t provide a link with a list of those cities attacked by Islamicist fanatics since 9 11 London Madrid Bali and now Mumbai The list is familiar but it is strange to see a former GOP operative recit

In the early part of Mark 14 we have preparatory notices The conspiracy against Jesus is set though the timing of the capture is still to be decided Jesus is anointed as a sign not simply of welcome to the table of Lazarus but of his impending death Judas Iscariot has decided to hand Jesus o

The Anchoress over at her blog has been welcoming people to an online vespers service in which she accompanies the listener through the church s evening prayer nbsp In this one she gives a little homilette nbsp It s another clever new way to pray online nbsp If St Paul were alive tod

Finally the Bush Treasury Department has hit on a good idea According to this morning rsquo s Washington Post the Treasury is planning to intervene in the mortgage market directly purchasing mortgage-backed securities on new loans if the lending banks lower their rates to 4 5 percent Because th

On that day a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse and from his roots a bud shall blossom The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him This Spirit will give him wisdom and understanding will give him counsel and strength will give him knowledge and fear of the Lord and the delight of t

The name may not be familiar to America readers but Tooker is among the most important living American artists according to America editorial director Karen Sue Smith who reviews an exhibition of of his work here for America Connects George Tooker A Retrospective will be at the National Acade

Robert Harrison is a Stanford-based radio personality who hosts a weekly program Entitled Opinions on the life of the mind nbsp Some recent guests on Entitled Opinions have been famous intellectuals and leaders nbsp including Rene Girard and Google s Vinton Cerf Yesterday December 2 Ha

The decline in women rsquo s vocations has meant that their numbers are not only smaller year by year but that the average ages of individual members has sharply risen As a late-life convert it was not my good fortune to have nuns as teachers in the non-Catholic schools I attended but those I ca

Advent First Week Wednesday Come let us climb the Lord s mountain to the house of the God of Jacob that he may instruct us in his ways and we may walk in his paths Then one nation shall not raise the sword against another nor shall they train for war again O come let us walk in th

The results of the Georgia Senate run-off were unsurprising Despite GOP worries that Team Obama rsquo s 13 million strong data base of donors and volunteers might be able to tilt the race the world did not turn upside down yesterday But there is a lesson in the results for the President-elect and

Christians in the Holy Land and abroad will be deprived of altar wine from Bethlehem this Christmas because Israeli soldiers are refusing to allow lorries carrying the wine to enter Israel The SOS has been issued by the UK importer of Cremisan wine which is made by the Salesians of Don Bosco in a

Over a century ago someone described Mark s Gospel as the death of Jesus preceded by a long introduction and in a certain sense he was right We were told that the Gospel would be about the Messiah and Son of God All through the Gospel we have seen signs that these two titles already pr