Can pastors in the military serve God and government?

Two new books set out to find Gerard Manley Hopkins.

It may be worthwhile checking Matt Malone s post on nbsp religion s role nbsp in the election nbsp against the 2004 interview President-elect Obama gave to the Chicago-Sun Times in which he talks of his religious faith Beliefnet has posted uncut the transcript of the hour Obama spent nbsp wi

It is time to enter Jerusalem and its Temple area Jesus approaches Jerusalem from the east from the Jordan River area he must climb the Mount of Olives passing key towns of Bethany and Bethphage on its crown Once over the top of the Mountain Jesus can see Jerusalem before him this city is o

Fr Roy Bourgeois MM the Maryknoll priest who has been threatened with excommunication for his participation at nbsp an nbsp ordination rite nbsp for women will nbsp travel to the Vatican to appeal his decision nbsp AP is reporting with a contingent of fellow priests and a bishop nbsp Despi

A poll released today by Public Religion Research and sponsored by a coalition of progressive faith-based organizations has some surprises about the role faith played in the 2008 presidential election and how faith voters are approaching the country rsquo s challenges Not surprisingly religious

nbsp From The New York Times by Victoria Burnett AP a surprising development in a case that has great meaning for many of our readers and our editors as well Nearly 20 years after the Salvadoran Army killed six Jesuit priests in one of the most notorious events of El Salvador s civil war a

Mark gives us Jesus third passion resurrection prediction it seems reasonable to say that Mark had an eye on what he will soon report about the passion of Jesus as he gives us more detail about Jesus sufferings Again we note that here as in the earlier predictions Jesus asks his disciple

From The New York Times First Pictures Taken of Extrasolar Planets The heavens declare the glory of God the sky proclaims its builder s craft nbsp One day to the next conveys that message one night to the next imparts that knowledge There is no word or sound no voice is heard Yet the

For all those Mad Men fanatics out there and I know you re there--whenever we post on that show we get loads of hits here s a provocative article on the ways that Arthur Miller s midcentury Death of a Salesman anticipated some of the themes of AMC s hit show nbsp Mark Scalese the au

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp George Coyne SJ the former director of the Vatican observatory talks to Bustedhalo com on this lively video and explains the church s official view on evolution nbsp It s called Is evolution making a monkey out of the Catholic church Check it out here nbsp

How do you ldquo recant rdquo and begin to believe something you don rsquo t believe The Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith or CDF is ordering Father Roy Bourgeois M M to recant his belief and support for women rsquo s ordination If not he will be excommunicated in thirty days

The Thessalonians had very little time with Paul Silvanus and Timothy before they were chased out of the city by a gang of ruffians as the NRSV translation has it in Acts 17 5 And yet in that short time they had turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God and to wait for his Son

Thomas Reese SJ and Peter Steinels both conclude that in the aftermath of Tuesday rsquo s elections results the U S Catholic bishops rsquo political prestige suffered greatly not least because the very pro-choice Barack Obama won a majority among Catholic voters Fr Reese said the bishops rsq

As Catholics we have no problem with the time-bound nature of the Bible In fact we appreciate it believing that the scriptures deserve to be read within their context and also need careful interpretation And while the Christian Feminists may not choose to have today s first reading as the open

From CNS Bishops approve section of missal translation rejected in June By Nancy Frazier O Brien Catholic News Service BALTIMORE CNS -- Despite some continued criticism that the translation is plagued by obscure wording and sentences that are too long the U S bishops approved another lengthy

Here in the latest installment of his series on prayer Father Jim Martin describes the power of praying with and in nature

Just released by the USCCB is this statement on the election of Barack Obama and the abortion issue STATEMENT of the President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops ldquo If the Lord does not build the house in vain do its builders labor if the Lord does not watch over the city i

Father Roy Bourgeois M M nbsp the Maryknoll priest nbsp best known for work nbsp to nbsp close the School of the Americas the US-run school that had trained paramilitary forces primarily from Latin American countries some of whom carried out brutal murders has been told in a letter from the