In All Things

This good news was sent to us from the Ignatian Pro-Life Net- work led by US Jesuits Students from Jesuit universities and high schools from across the country will gather in DC this week for the annual lsquo March for Life rsquo there they will pray sing chant and march in support of the unb

All of us are called to be saints as the Second Vatican Council reminded us in nbsp its use of the term the universal call to holiness Holiness is not just the duty of a few said Mother Teresa but of nbsp everyone nbsp We do this nbsp by being loving charitable and devout in our lives no ma

Fascinating story by Edward Rothstein he of protean mind and nbsp catholic interests who pens the Ideas section in The New York Times about nbsp the exhibition at the Library of Congress of a marvelous map It was nbsp drawn by the great Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci in 1602 Readers of this b

Ralph Waldo Emerson rsquo s poem Concord Hymn which is inscribed on the Minuteman statue at the North Bridge begins with four lines that every schoolchild learned by heart By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to April rsquo s breeze unfurled Here once the embattled farmers stood

Ted Kennedy came close to losing his U S Senate seat only once It was late summer 1994 and a telegenic then-liberal Republican named Mitt Romney had emerged as the perceived anti-Kennedy common-sensible business-like a family man concerned about social issues but not obsessed with them Ke

Since we suggested donations to Catholic Relief Services we thought you would want to know what they are doing on the ground in Haiti nbsp This is their latest release CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES HELPS SET UP DISPLACED CAMP ON PORT-AU-PRINCE GOLF COURSE GETS HAITIAN HOSPITAL RUNNING Ship unloaded

As you may already know we re lucky to have two new ish editors on our team Kevin Clarke and Kerry Weber nbsp Ms Weber recently of Catholic Digest brings a fresh perspective and lively prose nbsp to our pages and our website nbsp Here she reviews An Education a provocative film nbsp t

There are many nbsp The Anchoress focuses on one resourceful team and a resourceful Jesuit Br Jim Boynton SJ nbsp as well nbsp Follow all the links for the whole story nbsp

All last week the horror in Haiti made it well nigh to impossible to notice anything else And sadly as predicted a fifth horseman of the Apocalypse Chaos has come to torment that tormented island Still there was an article by Archbishop George Niederauer of San Francisco that was very worth

The Holy Father went to the Grand Synagogue yesterday to greet Rome rsquo s Jewish community His predecessor Pope John Paul II was the first Pope to visit a Roman synagogue since apostolic times a symbolic gesture from a master of symbolic gestures Pope Benedict had he chosen not to also make