In All Things

It is extremely unusual for the Vatican to make a statement on the clerical sex abuse crisis The one read out by the Pope s spokesman Federico Lombardi on Vatican Radio yesterday is a sign that Rome feels it can no longer resist the accusation that it is maintaining a wall of silence on the issue

European Catholics who may have hoped sexual abuse perpetrated by Catholic clergy was mostly a North American problem may be waking up to the widespread reality of this crisis A sudden eruption of stories of abuse emerging from Ireland Germany Austria and the Netherlands must be reverberating unp

Our friends at Salt amp Light have posted an nbsp unofficial transcription of an address by William Cardinal Levada prefect of the CDF nbsp on Anglicanorum coetibus the Vatican nbsp document on nbsp the reception into the church of nbsp members of the Anglican communion nbsp Cardinal Levada

At Fordham I have the challenge and distinct joy of working with many different kinds of theology students from undergraduate to master s to doctoral students often in the space of a single day This term I teach an undergraduate course that is an introduction to practical theology We are a sma

One of my favorite terms in publishing is the ldquo pub date rdquo which refers not to the night when you go out for a beer with pals at your local haunt but the publication date of a book nbsp Anyway for the last four years I rsquo ve been working on a book called at various times The Jesu

Two recent addresses help to clarify Pope Benedict XVI s personal ordinariate scheme for groups of Anglicans wishing to enter into communion with Rome nbsp Speaking in Canada the president of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith CDF Cardinal William Levada said groups of Anglicans e

If you think you are tired of reading blog posts about health care reform think about the 30 million Americans who lack access to adequate health care because they do not have insurance If you wish the issue would just go away or you are worried that further government intrusion might muck up our

Glenn Beck said last week on his eponymous radio and nbsp television shows that Christians should leave churches that preach ldquo social justice rdquo Mr Beck equated the desire for a just society with mdash wait for it mdash Nazism and Communism nbsp I m begging you your right to r

I ve already called your attention to the latest edition of the America Book Club but two other Web-only features are also worth a look First our weekly archive selection comes from 2003 on the eve of the war in Iraq when Drew Christiansen S J assessed the state of the just war tradition in

From the Denver Post a Catholic preschool has denied entrance to a student because her parents are a lesbian couple A preschool student at a Catholic school in Boulder will not be allowed to return next school year because the student s parents are two women and the Denver Archdiocese says their h