In All Things

The BBC has the correct headline nbsp on Pope Benedict s curial speech story Pope attacks blurring of gender is far more accurate than all those headlines claiming nbsp that saving gay people is as important as saving the rainforests and similar riffs on Reuters nbsp misleading nbsp — s

I have determined to spend the last week of Advent and the first week of Christmas meditating and reflecting on Edward Hicks rsquo The Peaceable Kingdom Hicks a Pennsylvania Quaker 1780-1849 was an autodidact as a painter although later in life he trained apprentices including the importan

Here s a story about St Joseph the hidden man of Christmas on Slate com What does his story have to say to modern-day believers Plenty For this story I interviewed both Lawrence Cunningham professor of theology at Notre Dame and Pheme Perkins professor of New Testament at Boston Col

The Holy Father rsquo s Ecology of Man speech has garnered a great deal of attention because one sentence in a very long speech made reference to the ways in which human sexuality falls short of the Gospel ideals What rsquo s often expressed and understood with the term lsquo gender rsquo is

From Reuters today VATICAN CITY Reuters – Pope Benedict said on Monday that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behaviour was just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction nbsp The Church should also protect man from the destruction of himself A sort of ecology of m

Greg Shemitz a photojournalist just sent us this link to his photos available online on his website of Cardinal Dulles funeral nbsp Mr Shemitz was on assignment for Catholic News Service nbsp Among them are this one of Jesuit priests processing past the casket of Cardinal Dulles nbsp

Rick Warren crashed George and Ali Stephanopoulos rsquo s Christmas party last night Not in the flesh of course but as a topic of conversation Washington rsquo s glitterati could not help themselves With the nation in the throes of a full-fledged economic crisis and with American troops still f

This year for the first time the same song is competing for the UK Christmas no 1 music slot with a title borrowed from a famous Jewish-Christian exclamation Leonard Cohen s 1984 song Hallelujah exploded into mass consciousness after it was sung by this year s X Factor winner Alex

Don t miss Peter Steinfels appreciation of John O Malley SJ s marvelous new book What Happened at Vatican II in the Times today nbsp Steinfels summarizes O Malley s history of the Council as well as his approach to the widespread continuity vs discontinuity debate nbsp In short

Cambridge MA I return today for a third time to the theme of Krishna in Advent nbsp In my first and second reflections on this theme I highlighted famous verses from Chapter 4 of the nbsp Bhagavad Gita and from the commentary on the verses by the medieval theologian Ramanuja There is a lot go