Next month Pope Benedict XVI will address the United Nations and we can expect him to denounce the Iraq War in very explicit terms The press will recall that Pope John Paul II warned against the unintended consequences of the use of force before the war No one would call either of these two popes

We have previously examined the critical role Catholics play in both parties primaries as well as in the general election And if you know nothing about Pennsylvania except the fact that it has a pro-life Democratic senator Bob Casey Jr you would know how important the Catholic vote is in the

Thomas P Sweetser S J has written a readable helpful follow-up to his The Parish as Covenant Keeping the Covenant Taking Parish to the Next Level builds on his foundational theology and spirituality of parish as articulated in the previous book but adds to that vision many new practical ste

A religious seeker who found her home in the Catholic Church, Flannery OConnor once noted that stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements, and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by t

Catholics should be amazed by how theology has developed over the past 40 years. From Karl Rahner to Jon Sobrino, from Edward Schillebeeckx to Elizabeth Johnson, the expanded territory covered by the theologians of our era bears comparison to the transition from the monastery to the university in th

What wood is this?

'The Deportees,' reviewed

Pictures at a Revolution One pauses before assigning too much significance to the voting patterns of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. After all, this is the estimable organization that deemed Doctor Dolittle worthy of a Best Picture nomination in 1967. Yet sometimes the academys choi

Chaldean Archbishop Kidnapped in Mosul Kidnappers abducted Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of Mosul, Iraq on Feb. 29, and killed the three people who were traveling with him. Chaldean Bishop Rabban al Qas of Arbil told the Rome-based missionary news service AsiaNews that Mosul’

One challenge for readers of Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light, the collection of Blessed Teresa of Calcuttas letters, is to distinguish among the terms darkness, dryness, desolation, doubt, disbelief, depression and despair - the seven Ds.

Further Questions Thank you for Gerard F. Powerss Our Moral Duty in Iraq (2/18). It would be worthwhile for leaders of our country and our military first to reconcile with those people whose loved ones we violated. This would, Ihope, lead to some real discussion about Iraqi autonomy over its resourc

Ghislain Lafont is a Benedictine monk of la Pierre-qui-Vire in France and formerly professor of theology at the Ateneo Sant 8217 Anselmo in Rome Born in 1928 he has had a long theological career in Europe but has received little attention in the United States A Theological Journey Promenade en

Preparing for the pope's visit

'God's wisdom comes quietly alongside us.'

No book of the Hebrew Scriptures is more beloved than the Psalms. Many Christians carry with them a book containing the four Gospels and the Book of Psalms. But no book of the Hebrew Bible is regularly bound by itself, except the Psalms. The psalter is treasured. Pious Jews often carry a small volum

Tom Hooper the director of the new HBO miniseries John Adams is in love with his subject at least as much as David McCullough showed himself to be in his bestselling book of the same title Not a scene of the seven-part miniseries debuting tonight on HBO takes place without Adams or his wi

I m not sure what I like the most the name of the website gloria tv their in-your-face slogan the more catholic the better their spokesnun she with the arbitrary binoculars the impressively multilingual comments Bei so sch nem Gesang wird die Fastenzeit richtig s or the mus

Paul s Hymn to Christ the most common title given to Philippians 2 6-11 is one of the most popular passages in the Pauline corpus with good reason and one of his most scrutinized passages as well To my mind it encapsulates Jesus Incarnation and Passion more powerfully than any other short

The martyrdom of Catholic Chaldean archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho reminds America that the war in Iraq is far from over Indeed yesterday a car bomb also killed 17 civilians in downtown Baghdad Earlier in the week five U S soldiers were killed while on patrol The surge had indeed lessened vi