In All Things

I have now heard from a number of respondents about my earlier post asking whether tenured theologians have an obligation to help rethink the present system of academic labor Several rightly criticized the post for not going far enough Inspired by those responses and ready to put more cards on th

Former Boomtown Rat Sir Bob Geldof don t like Wednesday s report from the BBC alleging that essentially all of the money raised during 1985 s Live Aid Band Aid rock extravaganzas mdash including the big cash generated by best-selling tunes Do they know it s Christmas We are the world associa

St Edmund Campion SJ has been nbsp honored at the Church of St Mary the Virgin at Oxford as reported by Mark Silk I m happy to report that St Mary s now commemmorates Campion and 21 other men of his era with a plaque that reads at the top REMEMBER THE MARTYRS OF THE REFORMATION BOTH CATHOLI

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Father Jim Martin–culture editor blogger for In All Things author of My Life with the Saints and regular guest on our podcast–is profiled today in USA Today Father Jim s new book A Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything come

The ethics controversy surrounding Congressman Charles Rangel until yesterday the powerful Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee is yet another in a long line of incidents that prove what really needs no proving Power corrupts The cases are rooted in the psychology of power and they are

A lot according to Peter McDermott an editor at the Irish Echo nbsp For one thing work together nbsp For another don t boo against the home team nbsp He offered these insights in person the other day and I asked him to send me his blogpost nbsp Besides how could I resist posting someth

Conservatives are permitted to define whatever standards of intellectual consistency for themselves that they wish But it is important in gauging the political sincerity of a movement and its leaders to determine how they fulfill the standards they have set for themselves It is one thing to criti

The bishop s teaching on the medical use of feeding tubes for nutrition and hydration was revised last November to mandate ldquo an obligation to provide patients with food and water including medically assisted nutrition and hydration for those who cannot take food orally rdquo that nbsp extend

From the Associated Press DUBLIN AP — A Roman Catholic diocese at the center of Ireland s child-abuse scandals appealed Tuesday to its parishioners to cover some of its more than euro 10 million 14 million in bills to victims and lawyers Bishop Denis Brennan of Ferns the southeast Irish di

Boy I wish I could embed this onto our page nbsp This is a terrific short video from Georgetown University interviewing four masters of the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius John W O Malley S J George Aschenbrenner S J John Padberg S J and William A Barry S J nbsp Be sure to ch