James Martin, S.J.

Since lots of our readers are interested in this topic vis-a-vis our new president here is Russell Shaw writing about FOCA If you re up on this you ll know what it is If not get up on it In Our Sunday Visitor s blog nbsp the Daily Take nbsp Shaw former spokesman for the USCCB and

Here s a little piece at NPR org on the increasing popularity of the newest kind of Christmas card even among devout Christians the family card nbsp The other two are the religious card–Mary and Jesus nbsp And the secular card–snowmen and snowy villages You all know what I m talking ab

Guess who the Archdiocese of Brooklyn got to pitch their new television network New Evangelization Television to be available on the net too in a few weeks nbsp Our friend Greg Kandra over at The Deacon s Bench is part of this new venture which we hope will resist all of Satan s e

The Anchoress over at her blog has been welcoming people to an online vespers service in which she accompanies the listener through the church s evening prayer nbsp In this one she gives a little homilette nbsp It s another clever new way to pray online nbsp If St Paul were alive tod

The place of gay and lesbian Catholics in the church and in society has once again come to the fore during the nbsp furor over the status of same-sex marriages and civil unions both here and abroad nbsp Just today for example Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento nbsp weighed in saying that Prop

Many of the headlines reporting nbsp the pope s weekly nbsp addresses are unintentionally amusing often highly so nbsp But you can hardly nbsp blame headline writers for nbsp trying to sum up Angelus messages and sometimes encyclicals letters nbsp or other official statements in one succinc

Here are the notes from President-elect Barack Obama s transition team s interview of a bold non-partisan choice who came highly recommended for a cabinet position Jesus of Nazareth An excerpt nbsp nbsp 8 Briefly describe the most controversial matters you have been involved in dur

From Catholic News Agency comes this article showing that you re not the only person who is reading In All Things nbsp A small correction it was actually a blog post here not an article in the magazine An official from the Vatican s Secretary of State department nbsp has reacted to

AP reports that according to nbsp Cardinal Francis Arinze prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship Pope Benedict XVI is considering moving the sign of Peace from immediately before Communion to earlier in the Mass nbsp The brief story is here nbsp Arinze told the Vatican newspaper