In All Things

The Anchoress over at her blog has been welcoming people to an online vespers service in which she accompanies the listener through the church s evening prayer nbsp In this one she gives a little homilette nbsp It s another clever new way to pray online nbsp If St Paul were alive tod

Finally the Bush Treasury Department has hit on a good idea According to this morning rsquo s Washington Post the Treasury is planning to intervene in the mortgage market directly purchasing mortgage-backed securities on new loans if the lending banks lower their rates to 4 5 percent Because th

The name may not be familiar to America readers but Tooker is among the most important living American artists according to America editorial director Karen Sue Smith who reviews an exhibition of of his work here for America Connects George Tooker A Retrospective will be at the National Acade

Robert Harrison is a Stanford-based radio personality who hosts a weekly program Entitled Opinions on the life of the mind nbsp Some recent guests on Entitled Opinions have been famous intellectuals and leaders nbsp including Rene Girard and Google s Vinton Cerf Yesterday December 2 Ha

The decline in women rsquo s vocations has meant that their numbers are not only smaller year by year but that the average ages of individual members has sharply risen As a late-life convert it was not my good fortune to have nuns as teachers in the non-Catholic schools I attended but those I ca

The results of the Georgia Senate run-off were unsurprising Despite GOP worries that Team Obama rsquo s 13 million strong data base of donors and volunteers might be able to tilt the race the world did not turn upside down yesterday But there is a lesson in the results for the President-elect and

Christians in the Holy Land and abroad will be deprived of altar wine from Bethlehem this Christmas because Israeli soldiers are refusing to allow lorries carrying the wine to enter Israel The SOS has been issued by the UK importer of Cremisan wine which is made by the Salesians of Don Bosco in a

The place of gay and lesbian Catholics in the church and in society has once again come to the fore during the nbsp furor over the status of same-sex marriages and civil unions both here and abroad nbsp Just today for example Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento nbsp weighed in saying that Prop

Barack Obama rsquo s new national security team is a Best and Brightest group as befits an administration that is pledged to being super-competent and smart the implication being that George W Bush rsquo s foreign policy has been incompetent and ham-handed his ideology over-riding his sensibili

Many of the headlines reporting nbsp the pope s weekly nbsp addresses are unintentionally amusing often highly so nbsp But you can hardly nbsp blame headline writers for nbsp trying to sum up Angelus messages and sometimes encyclicals letters nbsp or other official statements in one succinc