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Treat yourself to this Christmas video message from the children of a primary school in south London to the local councillor in charge of housing — and prepare to shed a tear The school did a survey of the families of the schoolchildren and found that 80 per cent were in overcrowded conditions —

The British media is today reporting — favorably here less so here — that the leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales is backing a call by London s mayor for a pathway into citizenship for Britain s 600 000-odd long-term undocumented migrants In reality it should be the other way

The sneering video letter nbsp issued by Al Qaeda s No 2 proves if nothing else that the Islamist terror network is running scared of Barack Obama And so they should be Obama s commitment to withdraw troops from Iraq and focus them on Afghanistan smashes the central Al-Qaeda thesis that the

Spooky I suggest in this blog that the Archbishop of Canterbury take bishops to Lourdes — and then he does Then a few weeks ago I come up with something called CathPod only to learn now that nbsp about that time an application called iBreviary was being launched Report in Italian here nbsp

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

The post-mortem over episcopal interventions nbsp in the nbsp election is likely to dominate the bishops meeting nbsp in Baltimore Thomas Reese SJ here and John Allen over at NCR have excellent analyses of who will be waving the surgical knives and what they hope to establish There s a second

When I was first invited to contribute to In All Things I wrote as a European envious of what the rise of Barack Obama showed the old continent about the United States Enlightened religion is deficient in piety feeling and popular power while Evangelicals are too prone to give reason the day

It seems unfair that we Europeans can t vote in tomorrow s US election — after all we ve followed every twist and turn of the campaign and it s not as if we ll be unaffected by the result Anxious for a substitute I ve written nbsp an article for the British Jesuit online journal Th

Marx s Capital is back on the bookshelves in Germany — but the Marx in question is a Catholic bishop And while his book is a response to the crisis of capitalism the revolution he is calling for has more to do with Rerum Novarum 1891 than Das Kapital 1867 nbsp You ve got to hand it to th

Winding up the Synod in Rome on the Word of God yesterday Catholic bishops from across the world endorsed a gadget They called for increased distribution of the Bible in the largest variety of our planet s languages — nothing new there — before adding that the voice of the divine word must