In All Things

Cardinal Christoph Sch ouml nborn conservative Archbishop of Vienna and an ordinary to Austria s Eastern Rite Catholics said this question should be considered as part of an ldquo unflinching examination rdquo of the possible causes of the scandal From The Times These included ldquo the iss

Expressing our desires brings us into a closer relationship with God Otherwise it would be like never telling a friend your innermost thoughts Your friend would remain distant When we tell God our desires our relationship to God deepens Desire is a primary way that God leads people to discove

Archbishop Charles nbsp Chaput of Denver has weighed in on the decision of the Catholic elementary school in Boulder part of nbsp the Denver archdiocese nbsp that has refused readmission to the child of a lesbian couple and about which we blogged here nbsp This was posted on the archdiocesan we

Good deeds at Loyola High in Los Angeles nbsp Woulda been nice if they mentioned the motivation for all those good deeds–gee let s see maybe it has something to do with the fact that the school has a beautiful chapel that the students seem to be gee praying that one guy has a photo of

Next week is the annual Los Angeles Religious Education Congress a giant Catholic cruise-ship of an event with typically upwards of 40 000 people from a broad array of pastoral work spending several days together in Anaheim for conversation inspiration and a hope for a holy break from the routin

Ben Smith rsquo s blog over at Politico com is a must-read on any day but today it is a stop-what-you-are-doing go-read-it-right-now read He looks at the growing suspicion among conservative evangelical voters of the libertarian impulses of the tea party movement The immediate worry is that the

It s nbsp not surprising that given all the problems with organized religion many people would say ldquo I rsquo m not religious rdquo They say ldquo I rsquo m serious about living a moral life maybe even one that centers on God but I rsquo m my own person rdquo ldquo Spiritual rdquo o

My colleague and friend Austen Ivereigh has an important post below about the sexual abuse crisis and the way Pope Benedict XVI is now involved in addressing it The situation in Germany itself and in Regensberg particularly has raised the possibility that some enterprising journalist will be sear

Tom Heneghan at Reuters has an excellent analysis piece on the developing central European abuse crisis The more the scandal of Catholic priests sexually abusing boys in Germany spreads the more the focus turns to Rome to see how Pope Benedict reacts The story is getting ever closer to the German

On last weekend rsquo s NPR quiz show Wait Wait Don rsquo t Tell Me host Peter Sagal recalled the resignation of then-Governor Elliott Spitzer who got caught up in a high-end prostitution ring Sagal commented Who know that would be the high water mark for moral conduct among New York politic