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While everyone talks about their opinions on President Obama s speech at Notre Dame today David Gibson s excellent article in the Outlook section of the Washington Post tackles the issue of who is really Catholic and why so many Catholics think that they can make that call nbsp At the end of h

nbsp Our blogger and frequent contributor to the mag Tom Beaudoin along with his band mates Brian Robinette and Michael Iafrate have created a new blog–sponsored by Liturgical Press–which will explore the connections between rock and theology nbsp It s nbsp called um Rock and Theology

In case you missed it here s Juan Williams of NPR your culture editor and Brian Lehrer on WNYC talking about Obama s visit to Notre Dame along with some very passionate callers nbsp You may recognize some insights from a certain Catholic magazine s recent editorial on the matter James Martin S

One of the nbsp great things about John Coleman S J is nbsp his ability to write nbsp on seemingly any topic with great grace and lucidity–from theology to sociology and more recently for nbsp America nbsp on art nbsp Here is Fr Coleman a sociologist associate pastor at St Ignatius Churc

More on the protean complicated soon-to-be-Blessed John Henry Newman in the newly rescued Boston Globe Because of his protean mind and voluminous writings then he is beloved by groups that are often at loggerheads More traditional Catholics admire Newman s elegant apologias for Catholicism

Here s nbsp one of the most nbsp cogent reasons why the New York State Legislature shouldn t nbsp open a window to extend nbsp the statute of limitations for sexual abuse cases in the Catholic church from Commonweal s lead editorial this week nbsp And I emphasize the Catholic church nbsp nbsp

One of my favorite things about the Internet are wild things like this nbsp nbsp May of course is Mary s month and my friends at nbsp Order of Malta more specifically representatives from nbsp the Order of Malta worldwide are in Lourdes this week for their annual pilgrimage when they take

nbsp Don t miss a terrific review of two hot shows on Broadway with explicit and implicit religious themes–Freidrich Schiller s old chestnut Mary Stuart brought to exciting new life by Janet McTeer and Harriet Walter and Eugene Ionesco s Exit the King with nbsp Geoffrey Rush Susan Sarando

Many nbsp in the pro-life movement seem to agree that we nbsp need not only new strategies since public opinion seems more or less nbsp fixed nbsp but also nbsp a new language nbsp Well here s something new nbsp Now nbsp I m not suggesting that we move away from nbsp anything in the Catholi