James Martin, S.J.

What do you get when you cross a nbsp top-flight theologian with one of the summer s hottest movies nbsp This provocative review of the sci-fi hit District 9 by Fr Robert Barron now on our online Culture section nbsp The new movie about a ragtag band of lost malnourished aliens nbsp who in

Tired of controversy nbsp How about something as Monty Python used to say completely different nbsp Here goes Webster Bull runs a company called Memoirs Unlimited which helps authors write personal and private family memoirs nbsp In 1988 he and his wife started a company called Commonweal

From the Associated Press story on Bishop Martino s resignation this morning at a news conference where he was accompanied by Cardinal Justin Rigali the archbishop of Philadelphia nbsp and Bishop John Doherty Martino s auxiliary For some time now there has not been a clear consensus among th

One reader asked for the text of the letter from Senator Kennedy to Pope Benedict XVI hand-delivered by President Obama to the pope on his recent visit to Vatican City portions of which were read yesterday by Cardinal McCarrick at the graveside service nbsp The full text is below along with the

According to Michael Paulson at the Boston Globe in an article earlier today Cardinal Sean O Malley who gave the final commendation at the funeral of Senator Kennedy was under intense pressure not to afford the senator whose deep faith and life of prayer have become more public in the past few d

NCR is reporting that Bishop Joseph F Martino of Scranton Pa has resigned abruptly nbsp nbsp In All Things readers will recall that Bishop Martino during a parish meeting last fall nbsp centering the USCCB s document Faithful Citizenship in the midst of the presidential election declar

nbsp Our own Matt Malone SJ who will soon and sadly for us be departing the magazine for theology studies in preparation for ordination appears on NET the Brooklyn diocese s new web channel speaking about Sen Kennedy nbsp Matt is humble about his political acumen and background he worked

nbsp We ve gotten thousands of hits and a boatload of letters on this week s two nbsp cover stories by Bishop John D Arcy and John Quinn on the Notre Dame affair nbsp Some you can already read at the close of each of the articles others we will publish in later editions of the magazine nbsp F

Senator Edward M Kennedy was far from the perfect man nbsp In fact his infamous actions at Chappaquiddick Island in 1969 which led to the death of the young Mary Jo Kopechne he called at the time ldquo indefensible rdquo I agree Less remarked-upon nbsp over the last few days nbsp has been

Dan Gilgoff over at US News interviews Adam Clymer Senator Kennedy s biographer on the man s faith Some obituaries today are calling Ted Kennedy a devout Catholic How important was his faith to him personally It meant a great deal to him A friend of his told me how painful it was for him not to t