In All Things

From the Daily Telegraph news of a bishops nbsp row over Medjugorge nbsp Cardinal Christoph Schonborn the Archbishop of Vienna was subjected to unprecedented public criticism by Bishop Ratko Peric of Mostar for spending Christmas in the town in his Bosnian diocese where the Virgin is said to

The indispensible blog of Ben Smith at Politico com has a posting up about immigration reform The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is evidently threatening to withhold support for the health care reform unless the congressional leadership and the White House pledge themselves to moving the immigration

As part of nbsp our nbsp promise vow to keep you up to date on movies over the Christmas and Epiphany and Baptism season here s Jake Martin s review of Crazy Heart which is winning plaudits for Jeff Bridges s performance as a country crooner looking up from the bottom of nbsp a whiskey bot

Last October the American Law Institute the group that established standards for the death penalty in America voted to withdraw its support of the practice it helped to define This decision according to New York Times columnist Adam Liptak represents a tectonic shift in legal theory In his

Says William Doino who writes for Inside the Vatican and contributed to The Pius War nbsp in a lengthy piece in the London Times today nbsp It s one of the most concise and well-documented nbsp defenses of the pope that you will find In the Autumn of 1987 during one of his many meetings with

America has been introduced to the country of Yemen this past week That introduction was a result of the failed bombing attempt on a Delta flight from Amsterdam to Detroit when 23 year old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was unable to ignite the explosives in his underwear More precisely the introducti

The former primate of all Ireland Cardinal Cahal Daly who died on New Year s Eve aged 92 was the Irish Church s leading intellectual As a priest he wrote background papers for the bishops attending the Second Vatican Council as a bishop he worked tirelessly for peace and ecumenism speaking ou

I spent the Octave of Christmas offline — hence no posts for which apologies — deep in the south-west of England daily visiting my father who is the dementia unit of an elderly care home When I started contributing to In All Things a year ago he was able to log on from his home to read these

One of the world s most popular pilgrimage sites is set to be even more popular this year 2010 is a Holy Year for the Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela which happens every time 25 July — feast day of St James the Apostle said to be buried in the city s extraordinary cathedral — falls on