James Martin, S.J.

A notice from the Apostleship of Prayer Full Text from Vatican Information Service At the end of today s general audience held in the Paul VI Hall the Pope launched an appeal for the dramatic situation currently being experienced in Haiti My thoughts go in particular to the population hit jus

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Among the almost 50 000 estimated victims of the terrible earthquake in Haiti was the archbishop of Port-au-Prince Joseph Serge Miot who died when his office adjacent to the nbsp Cathedral of nbsp Our Lady of the Assump

From our friends at the Jesuit Refugee Service In response to yesterday rsquo s devastating earthquake in Haiti Jesuit Refugee Service is mounting an emergency relief effort to provide lifesaving aid including food and other urgently needed items to the Haitian people Aid will be provided in par

As an addendum to nbsp Kevin Clarke s helpful nbsp blogpost here is the link to Catholic Relief Services nbsp to help those affected in Haiti nbsp Pray at home for the victims and their families help CRS here

You may have seen that Art Clokey the creator of Gumby and Pokey died this weekend at the age of 88 nbsp Most of the nbsp obituaries including this nbsp extensive one nbsp today at The New York Times focused on his more-famous creations the green man and his little red horse who stop-

David Van Biema s pieces in Time are always worth reading nbsp This one which looks at a trend that has flown largely under the religious radar is no exception nbsp The racial divide is falling fastest says Van Biema in evanglical Christianity In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr famously declar

A guest columnist today in the On Faith blog WashPost and Newsweek s is Sr Mary Ann Walsh RSM the director of media relations for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops nbsp She s tackling the complicated issue of the reconciliation of the House and Senate bills on health care nbsp Her led

Elizabeth Scalia aka The Anchoress nbsp at First Things is someone who is always worth reading even if you sometimes come at things Catholic from a different nbsp angle than she does nbsp Her she is over at Inside Catholic on the New Mass es nbsp The Novus Ordo isn t going anywhere but man

Look backward When God seems asleep in our lives or not present or when we want to say Don t you care sometimes it s best to look backwards and see where God has already been Looking for God in the past helps you trust that God is with you in the present and will be in your future too No m

Things liturgical have a way of raising nbsp Catholic hackles Cackles even here at In All Things nbsp Maybe that s as it should be the Mass is the source and summit of Catholic worship so Catholics should take the celebration of the Mass and the other sacraments and other things liturgi