In All Things

If you haven t done so already take a few minutes 12 to be exact to watch this trailer from the upcoming documentary Monse ntilde or The Last Days of Oscar Romero Having worked at two Catholic magazines I ve read a lot about the martyred archbishop but nothing compares to seeing this foot

We are extremely fortunate to have John Anderson writing for us nbsp Anderson one of our new film critics also writes regularly for The New York Times Arts amp Leisure section as well as for The Washington Post and Variety nbsp In fact you might have seen this recent piece he did in the Ti

Some commentators have seized on the notion that health care and jobs are competing priorities and that the president made a big mistake in putting health care ahead of jobs In a nutshell they are saying It rsquo s jobs stupid They might have had a point had the president made such a choice

On this side of the Atlantic we don t go for headlines with commas in them — an American newsroom custom which we ve resisted The obvious headline was Belgian bishop resigns over abuse But you would have thought wouldn t you that meant a bishop resigning for failing to handle properly the ca

Newsweek in an article by Tim Fernholz has accused me and Peggy Noonan of occupying the mushy middle in the discussion of the clergy sex abuse crisis I have been called many things but mushy is not one of them If anything my worry is that the blogger rsquo s calling to be provocative somet

Today April 22 is the 40th anniversary of the day we celebrate Earth a day marked with community and global events intended to heighten awareness of the many threats to the health and well-being of our planet It should remind us that sustained ongoing efforts are required to address these chall

Although it is the Vatican and the Church in central Europe that have been under the spotlight over abuse recently the media coverage has been so intense that the bishops of England and Wales have felt it necessary to respond publicly to the firestorm in an unusual statement All parishes in Englan

Pro-life groups led by Virginia rsquo s Governor Bob McDonnell scored an important victory in the state legislature yesterday By a vote of 20-19 the Senate in the Commonwealth of Virginia passed a law restricting the use of state Medicaid funds for abortions except in cases of rape incest or t

The Vatican cardinal whose contempt for civil authorities was revealed last week in a 2001 letter to a French bishop has been disinvited by a traditionalist Catholic group who wanted him to celebrate a Old Rite Mass at the Cathedral in Washington DC The Paulus Institute who had spent three years p

As the May 6 election in Britain nears Matt Malone S J reports from London on the ever tightening race to control the next parliament Not long ago the Conservative leader David Cameron was the favorite to lead his party to victory but the recent surge of the Liberal Democrats and Nick Clegg