In All Things

Everyone in my hometown knows him We always see him dancing on the street corners wearing flamboyant attire fighting with light posts pretending to be a tree We all know him but few know what he rsquo s like when not on his medication instead of his affable quirky self we see the darker sid

Jonathan Schell who died in Brooklyn on March 25 at the age of 70 was more than a great journalist he was what every journalist aspires mdash or should aspire mdash to be a moralist a prophet a soul of deep integrity I suppose I should use those adjectives with caution since I regret that we

A recent New York Times story on the birth of the universe produces awe and amazement ldquo It rsquo s not every day that you wake up and find what happened one trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the big bang rdquo quipped a prominent cosmologist Science 3 21 New di

As the nation continues its apparently endless debate on comprehensive immigration reform members of the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops joined together this morning with residents migrants and advocates at the border in Nogales Arizona There they celebrated Mass together to remember the tho

The spiritual season of Lent sometimes brings out the creativity in people In fulfilling our Lenten obligations of prayer fasting and almsgiving we try to come up with something new something more meaningful something that will change our lives I recently heard in passing of a different kind o

Cape Cod MA mdash Having just spent several months on the road and becoming more acutely aware of how many interesting interfaith events are happening near and far I am happy to make this space available to Dr Anita Ray for her report on a recent interfaith gathering just outside Melbourne A

We are the people Massimo Faggioli warned you about In his article seeking an end to the political polarization of Catholics in the United States Faggioli mentions us by name as representing the road not to follow We are accused of ldquo withdrawal nbsp from the nation-state rdquo ldquo withd

Father William Rowe is back No not restored to his beloved St Mary Parish in southeast Illinois from which he was extracted by Bishop Edward Braxton for improvising parts of the prayers at Mass but back in the news in a report by Melinda Henneberger in the Washington Post and a repeat by Rober

March 29th will mark a first in the history of papal audiences On Saturday Pope Francis will have a special audience for those who are deaf and blind It will be held in the Paul VI audience hall at the Vatican While it is true that popes in the past have had met individually with people who were

The meeting between Pope Francis and President Obama can be described as a quot yes we can moment quot It has been said that under Blessed Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan a meeting of like-minded souls took place that helped to challenge and tear down a wall the Berlin Wall This