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For all those Mad Men fanatics out there and I know you re there–whenever we post on that show we get loads of hits here s a provocative article on the ways that Arthur Miller s midcentury Death of a Salesman anticipated some of the themes of AMC s hit show nbsp Mark Scalese the au

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp George Coyne SJ the former director of the Vatican observatory talks to Bustedhalo com on this lively video and explains the church s official view on evolution nbsp It s called Is evolution making a monkey out of the Catholic church Check it out here nbsp

From CNS Bishops approve section of missal translation rejected in June By Nancy Frazier O Brien Catholic News Service BALTIMORE CNS — Despite some continued criticism that the translation is plagued by obscure wording and sentences that are too long the U S bishops approved another lengthy

Just released by the USCCB is this statement on the election of Barack Obama and the abortion issue STATEMENT of the President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops ldquo If the Lord does not build the house in vain do its builders labor if the Lord does not watch over the city i

Father Roy Bourgeois M M nbsp the Maryknoll priest nbsp best known for work nbsp to nbsp close the School of the Americas the US-run school that had trained paramilitary forces primarily from Latin American countries some of whom carried out brutal murders has been told in a letter from the

A typically astute article by Peter Steinfels–one of his very best–in The New York Times on the Catholic vote here Here is Steinfels Many Catholics may understandably feel that the bishops are talking out of both sides of their mouths Catholics are not supposed to be single-issue voters b

Here s news from Bill McGarvey editor of Bustedhalo com the website for young adult seekers and believers about a fun new idea for pilgrimage In an age such as ours is it possible to reinvigorate that old model nbsp and bring a spiritual dimension to a 21st century holiday nbsp Before n

From Thomas J Reese S J senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center in Washington DC and former editor in chief of America one of his typically astute analyses of the U S bishops approach to the political sphere nbsp Bishops Plan for Dealing with a Democratic Washington On No

From the Archdiocese of Washington Washington Archbishop Donald W Wuerl called upon the faithful of the archdiocese to pray for President-elect Obama and all of the newly elected as they take on their new responsibilities nbsp ldquo We offer our prayers today for our nation and for our newly ele