Michael Sean Winters a dedicated blogger for In All Things will--like many of America s contributors--be doing the media rounds for the papal visit In addition to Michael s piece for Slate which Fr Jim Martin blogged about earlier this week he took questions from readers on the Washington

Were not our hearts burning within us while he spoke to us on the way and opened the scriptures to us The disciples hearts were on fire during this sacred conversation And that fire was so hot that it indelibly seared their souls with the intimate knowledge peace and love of the resurre

Pope Benedict decided to end speculation about whether he will discuss the abuse crisis even before he lands Aboard the plane en route to Washington D C he said this according to the Associated Press It is a great suffering for the Church in the United States and for the church in general

This is my third and final post on the Triduum at the Casa in Scottsdale Arizona Click on my name above to read my previous entries When I heard that the Casa was putting on a passion play in the afternoon of Good Friday I mentally thought I might skip it I had studied the sordid history of

Today Pope Benedict s profound theological vision comes up against the whirlwind of America s 24 7 media culture and is indeed at the mercy of that culture A man not know for soundbites will be the subject of soundbites Instead of encyclicals and books and homilies the Pope s message wil

Here s Associate Editor Matt Malone SJ on NPR today along with a seminarian from St Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia Pa on All Things Considered considering the shortage of priestly vocations and why a person would choose to enter a seminary or religious life Besides bein

As Fr Jim Martin noted last week America s editors will be fanned out across New York this week to cover the pope s visit To supplement their coverage we re expanding our roster of bloggers to include more perspectives from both New York and DC Also thanks to Catholic News Service we

It is hard for the congregation to take the homily more seriously than the preacher takes it Anon Speakers exhibit visual and verbal signs that prompt their listeners to make judgments about their right to communicate R Kennedy quoting King Power and Communication If we ap

Equal time for Senator McCain After a plea to our readers to provide In All Things with a list of the Republican Senator s Catholic Advisors a kindly soul pointed us to this link McCain s Catholics We would list all the personages as we did below with Senator Obama but Mr McCain

Cambridge MA I am sure I am not alone in having mixed feeling about Pope Benedict s coming visit to the United States Of course I share the respect and even reverence due to the Papacy in general and to this holy Pope in particular and of course I share in the prayers of all those hoping tha

Few industries can boast that they serve the public good and also post a healthy profit. Yet that is what newspapers in the United States succeeded in doing for much of the last century. Flush with advertising dollars and comfortable atop the media food chain, newspapers managed to please both their

I am an American, happy to be home; but in many ways I am almost a stranger.

Good Shepherds Regarding your editorial “Lost Sheep” (3/17): How do we find those lost sheep? And how many more sheep do we lose before we figure out what to do and how to do it? A de-Christianized culture drives us to be even more effective than we have been in the past. We cannot pres

It is a great privilege to be here with you this evening to be with the many friends and admirers of Cardinal Dulles and to offer these words in deep appreciation and gratitude for all that he has been for us, all that he has shared with us as priest, as theologian and as friend. It would be neglige

A history of liturgical renewal at Vatican II, reviewed

  With this issue America begins its 100th year of publication, rounding out a century of service to Catholic intellectual life in the United States. Writing in the inaugural issue, dated April 17, 1909, the magazine’s founding editor, John J. Wynne, S.J., wrote that “the object, sc

Undocumented immigrants victimized by human traffickers are among the most vulnerable of the people affected by U.S. immigration policy. Many of them embark on their journey as hopeful migrants but run up against limits on legal migration and jobs. For the promise of honest work and earnings to shar

Its the water. The large windows that flank our sanctuary at Tautra Mariakloster in Norway look directly out on the Trondheim Fjord. Each of the seven of us Cistercian nuns here has felt our primordial connection with the water all around us. Being in our church is like being in a womb, with the wat

Vatican Comments on Muslim Convert When Pope Benedict XVI welcomed into the Catholic Church a Muslim-born journalist who has often been critical of Islam, it was not a sign that the pope accepts everything the journalist believes, said the Vatican spokesman. The Italian journalist, Magdi Allam, &ldq