In All Things

This parody letter to the editor from Lily Coyle over at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune responds to the Rev Pat Robertson s statement that the earthquake in Haiti was the response of God over the pact that the Haitians made with the devil nbsp Michael Sean Winters had earlier commented on th

Pope Benedict XVI in his address to the nbsp synagogue in Rome today said that Pope Pius XII had saved Jews during the Holocaust in a discreet way nbsp But the president of the city s Jewish community told the congregation that the silence of Pius still hurts nbsp The nbsp two grafs nbsp

Two good pieces on Catholicism in the New York Times today nbsp First David Gibson s provocative piece on whether making saints of all popes which seems to be the current trend after all with Pius XII John XXIII Paul VI and John Paul II on track nbsp Gibson who quotes Christopher Bellitt

President Obama called the earthquake in Haiti an ldquo incomprehensible tragedy rdquo He rsquo s right But is there any tragedy that is comprehensible By what measure do we comprehend something like this What could ever make it so understandable that we can eliminate from our hearts and minds

CNN has had the best coverage by far of the Haitian earthquake nbsp The network and its reporter Anderson Cooper who was apparently one of the first journalists to enter Port-au-Prince after the earthquake is to be greatly commended for bringing this nbsp immense human tragedy into our

We have just posted an online slide show of images from Haiti Thanks to CNS and Reuters Tim Reidy nbsp

This weekend the government of El Salvador will issue a formal apology for its persecution of the Jesuit order during the bloody civil war of the 1980s This comes a couple of months after the honouring six priests killed 20 years ago For all the murdered priests nuns catechists and ordinary ch

As one result of the earthquake in Haiti much USA and world military energy is being transformed and directed toward humanitarian aid nbsp An aircraft carrier outfitted for war will bring fresh water and medicines to the citizens of Port-au-Prince Helicopters designed to convey soldiers to the b

Archbishop Raymond Burke Prefect of the Apostolic Singatura delivered the homily at the Red Mass in Pheonix Tuesday In his remarks he said of America It is a society which is abandoning its Judeo-Christian foundations the fundamental obedience to God rsquo s law which safeguards the common go

Just returned from a preview of Book of Eli Thank you Grace Hill Media nbsp The story A superfast supersensitive Denzel Washington wanders through post-apocalyptic USA trying to shepherd the last remaining Bible to a place where it will make a difference Note to the writer the developing