In All Things

Elizabeth Scalia aka The Anchoress nbsp at First Things is someone who is always worth reading even if you sometimes come at things Catholic from a different nbsp angle than she does nbsp Her she is over at Inside Catholic on the New Mass es nbsp The Novus Ordo isn t going anywhere but man

We writers especially we writers who focus on politics appreciate fine speechwriting Peggy Noonan and Rick Hertzberg are two of my favorite former presidential speechwriters And it would be impossible for any wordsmith not to admire President Obama rsquo s speechwriter Jon Favreau who has pen

An online petition has been launched ht Ruth Gledhill to protest the beatification of Pope Pius XII expected next October together with that of Pope John Paul II The decision by Pope Benedict XVI to proceed with the beatification made just before Christmas has led to a spate of Jews spitting

Look backward When God seems asleep in our lives or not present or when we want to say Don t you care sometimes it s best to look backwards and see where God has already been Looking for God in the past helps you trust that God is with you in the present and will be in your future too No m

I last saw Sen Chris Dodd a couple of weeks ago outside of St Joseph rsquo s church where we had both just attended Mass I first met him in 1974 at the kitchen table in my home in Connecticut He had come there en route to a campaign event in our little town which had a church hall large enough f

Here in Barcelona I ve just finished a long noisy family lunch which began with children opening presents Today the Feast of the Epiphany — we ve lost sight of it in the US and the UK since it was merged with last Sunday — is the day when in Spain gifts are given commemorating those present

The hoary argument that Budd Schulberg and Elia Kazan sought to use their film On the Waterfront to justify their decision to name names before the House Un-American Activities Committee was resurrected once again last month in the New York Times Magazine s annual The Lives They Lived issue In

Things liturgical have a way of raising nbsp Catholic hackles Cackles even here at In All Things nbsp Maybe that s as it should be the Mass is the source and summit of Catholic worship so Catholics should take the celebration of the Mass and the other sacraments and other things liturgi

While we continue to publish on a biweekly print schedule in January our news pages will be updated weekly on our Web site The latest round of Signs of the Times items has just been posted Read about the life of Cardinal Cahal Daly who was instrumental in pushing Norhtern Ireland toward peace a

You could sense the anger in the President rsquo s words and on his face as he spoke to the nation yesterday after a meeting with his national security and intelligence aides This was not a failure to collect intelligence it was a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we alrea