In All Things

Earlier this week the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia Bob McDonnell issued a proclamation declaring April Confederate History Month Not mind you Civil War History Month Next year is the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War and it is undoubtedly a good thing to call

We mentioned this protest in the April 12 Signs of the Times A group of Palestinian Christians and supporters march after Palm Sunday Mass from the Church of Nativity to Jerusalem and caught Israeli border police by surprise I think everybody was surprised how far they got past the checkpoint befo

A recent dialogue between Bill Keller the executive editor for The New York Times and Scott Appleby history professor at the University of Notre Dame started out on the wrong foot Their exchange began with comments made by Appleby made during an interview for On Point a program aired on NPR st

GetReligion has an interesting post on how the media handled one aspect of the abuse crisis engulfing the church nbsp nbsp The story and their analysis is complicated but worth reading nbsp Here we go For Catholics and non-Catholics alike it rsquo s difficult to read the stories attempting t

One hundred years hence it is possible that the history books will note the on-going ups-and-downs of the clergy sex abuse crisis Perhaps the treaty the President nbsp signed this morning nbsp to reduce the number of nuclear weapons will be the first of many which will in one hundred years reac

I ve blogged about this once before but just a reminder that we have set up a special page for teachers featuring selected articles on subjects such as sacraments and liturgy the saints and Catholics and politics We ve also just uploaded our monthly teacher newsletters to the page so you can no

From the New York Times The board of St Vincent Catholic Medical Centers voted on Tuesday night to close its flagship hospital in Greenwich Village ending its long struggle to stay afloat despite millions of dollars of debt The exact timing for the closing of St Vincent rsquo s Hospital Manhatt

My friend and colleague Austen Ivereigh has a post below about the revelations of corruption contained in a new investigative report by Jason Berry over at NCR I concur with everything that Ivereigh says except this It makes for shocking reading I was not shocked in the least Perhaps Austen ha

The first of two parts of a new Jason Berry investigation into the way the Legionaries of Christ oiled the Roman Curia through money and gifts is posted at NCR It makes for shocking reading The Pope emerges unscathed indeed is singled out for refusing an envelope of cash And it was Benedict XVI

My youngest of four daughters has moved out of the house She is now sharing an apartment with one of her sorority sisters only 50 miles from home She is halfway through her freshman year of college She is lovely witty compassionate intelligent thoughtful and completely ready to be out of th