In All Things

The hysteria on the Left especially gay rights activists over President-elect Barack Obama rsquo s selection of mega-church pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inaugural ceremony is comic For those who care about the rights of gays and lesbians however the hysteria is also tragic

Critics of the Archbishop of Canterbury who try to dismiss him as a bearded lefty have been confounded by his very public disagreement with the prime minister Gordon Brown over how to respond to the fast-deepening recession In comments yesterday on the flagship BBC news program Today Row

This afternoon at 2 00 the Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated by Edward Cardinal Egan archbishop of New York for Avery Cardinal Dulles SJ nbsp in the great space of St Patrick rsquo s Cathedral nbsp In addition to the Dulles family his Jesuit brothers religious and clergy from around

The buzz about Caroline Kennedy being appointed to the New York Senate seat Hillary Clinton is vacating is everywhere The front page of the papers talk radio and of course Chris Matthews can scarcely contain himself though so far no reports of shivers up his leg But the coverage has so far

Over one hundred Catholic sisters sponsored by the National Coalition of American Nuns have written to the Vatican s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith nbsp in support of Roy Bourgeois the Maryknoll priest or former Maryknoll priest depending on his status who participated in a women

Is there any group in the American Catholic church that has done so much while receiving so little appreciation than Catholic sisters No Women religious helped to build our church teach our children nurse our infants care for our elderly feed our poor manage our parishes and spread the

The President-Elect needs to focus like a laser on the economic crisis once he takes office next month Not only is there a great deal of human suffering wrapped inside the rising unemployment numbers but a host of other governmental challenges become more difficult the longer the economic downturn