In All Things

The environmental catastrophe in the Gulf following the blow-out and sinking of Deepwater Horizon a BP oil drilling rig off Louisiana has its first representative avian face of disaster Unnamed but tagged number 1 a nbsp northern gannet rescued close to the spot where the Deepwater Horizon impl

While some Catholics may not agree with every point in Nicholas Kristof s latest column in the New York Times it s hard to argue with his words of praise for the many nuns and priests working and living in some of the world s poorest countries These men and women dedicated to humbly serving the p

There was a rare bipartisan vote in the House the other day but in this case the bipartisanship did not do anything to advance the health of our democracy By a vote of 223-169 with neither party leadership taking an official position the House voted to order the people of Puerto Rico to enter i

The Legionaries of Christ will not be closed down but face a path of purification says the Vatican in the wake of a detailed report Revelations that the order s Mexican founder Fr Marcial Maciel Degollado was a serial paedophile who secretly fathered children have shattered the Legionaries and

Cambridge MA I rsquo ve been wandering a bit in the last few weeks inside outside around the edges of the Church Part of it had to do with actual travel trips to Washington DC Santa Clara California and New York City but much of it was movement in a mental space in a series of conversati

Just posted to our site along with the May 10 issue is this essay from Bishop Blase Cupich chair of the U S bishops Committee for Child and Youth Protection Twelve Things the Bishops Have Learned From the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis A few highlights 8 Bishops need to be mutually accountabl

In an introductory course on practical theology that I teach for undergraduates at Fordham spaces are left open in the syllabus to focus on the practical-theological questions arising from their lives in college culture Once they as a class identify some shared questions I help them fill in the

As of this morning the campaign of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown literally involves a car crash Mr Brown was launching the Labour Party s new poster campaign today in central London when some garbage men were so caught up in heckling him that they forgot to look where they were going No on

During the 2008 Republican National Convention shouts of Drill Baby Drill were heard from the galleries and also from the podium They were referring to the idea of drilling for oil off America rsquo s coastlines This was presented as a relatively easy and thoroughly American way of dealing wi

In a recent episode of the animated hit ldquo South Park rdquo the steady stream of abuse scandals currently rocking the Catholic church became a recurring punchline When asked a question that elicits an obvious yes notoriously insensitive protag Eric Cartman trots out the ldquo Is the Pope Ca