In All Things

Cambridge MA We just finished the second week of the semester at Harvard and things are settling down I am team-teaching a first year Master of Divinity course ldquo Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion rdquo which raises some interesting questions about whether and where academic s

The lesser of two evils is nbsp an important concept nbsp from the Catholic moral tradition that is being applied in a new way in the diocese of Albany as RNS s Daniel Burke reports in this story of its needle-exchange program nbsp In the past few decades nbsp a few theologians nbsp have argue

It s nice to be reminded that the U S church has a position on peace we re all for it BTW and that the U S and Russia still have much unfinished business related to the end of the Cold War and the final status of our absurd nuclear weapons stockpiles Here s one time-ordinary of the U S Archdi

A well-briefed media-trained speakers bureau of Catholics is being set up in the UK in advance of Benedicts XVI s visit in September Declaration of interest I m one of those behind it Catholic Voices is a project of the Catholic Union a venerable institution created in the late nineteenth cent

Bipartisanship has a better name than it should As often as not it yields an anodyne moderation that is unequal to the tasks facing the nation Last year President Obama scaled back the stimulus bill in hopes of attracting GOP support he got none when we now realize the stimulus needed to be l

Gaza might not be the only thing under siege in the Middle East Israeli democracy has taken a fair number of hits recently A Zionist student organization Im Tirtzu partly bankrolled by the Christian Dispensationalist-Zionist and non-pal to Catholics John Hagee has issued an inflammatory repor

Every year a good friend calls me one morning in early February to quiz me on the Oscar nominees nbsp The game is that I m not supposed to listen to any news broadcasts or read any papers or now surf the web nbsp nbsp Some years I m batting 1000 or at least 900 other years not so much nbsp

A nbsp contact at the White House sent us these remarks and since I m not sure if they are on the web yet I ll post them in full nbsp Heads of state cabinet members Members of Congress religious leaders distinguished guests ndash it rsquo s good to see you Let me begin by acknowledging th

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