In All Things

The controversy over the revelations in the new book Game Change about the 2008 presidential election has so far focused on Sen Harry Reid rsquo s comment about then-Sen Obama rsquo s skin color and his lack of what Reid called a Negro dialect The use of the word Negro as an adjective is no

Just a few days after a Malaysian court ruling allowing a Catholic newspaper to use the word Allah to refer to God seemed to offer the nation rsquo s minority Christians a small civil victory the government has reinistated its ldquo Allah rdquo ban among non-Muslims Malaysian officials are appar

On this week s podcast Drew Christiansen S J offers an introduction to Reinhold Niebuhr the mid-20th century theologian and public intellectual who has been invoked by David Brooks and others as a major influence on President Obama s foreign policy Father Christiansen argues that the pundits g

When writing yesterday rsquo s post I had not yet read the English translation of the Holy Father rsquo s Address to the Curia delivered annually just before Christmas and serving as the ecclesiastical equivalent of the queen rsquo s speech from the throne or president rsquo s state of the union a

In this week s New York Times magazine Mark Leibovich profiles Florida rsquo s upcoming Republican primary in which the sometimes-popular and one-time front runner Governor Charlie Crist is struggling to stay ahead of tea-party poster boy Mark Rubio The piece details the rise of this growing thou

You may have seen that Art Clokey the creator of Gumby and Pokey died this weekend at the age of 88 nbsp Most of the nbsp obituaries including this nbsp extensive one nbsp today at The New York Times focused on his more-famous creations the green man and his little red horse who stop-

The Liturgy Wars are back although I suspect they never really left Yesterday Pope Benedict celebrated Mass in the Sistine Chapel where the altar faces the great mural of the Last Judgment by Michelangelo That is the Pope presided ad orientem or facing away from the people The liturgy in the

David Van Biema s pieces in Time are always worth reading nbsp This one which looks at a trend that has flown largely under the religious radar is no exception nbsp The racial divide is falling fastest says Van Biema in evanglical Christianity In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr famously declar

I am never sure how nbsp many people read only the on-line version of this magazine and others read only the print magazine If you fall into the former category look up on the mainpage and you will see a beautiful picture of the baldachino in St Peter s in Rome There is also a link to an article

A guest columnist today in the On Faith blog WashPost and Newsweek s is Sr Mary Ann Walsh RSM the director of media relations for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops nbsp She s tackling the complicated issue of the reconciliation of the House and Senate bills on health care nbsp Her led