In All Things

What a difference four years make–or is it merely an ideological shift The National Intelligence Council has been doing every few years projections of global trends for 2010 2015 2020 and just recently November 2008 2025 Four years ago the NIC scenarios saw globalization as irreversible

As President-elect Obama begins appointing officials to his administration the leftie blogosphere has been complaining that too many positions have gone to former Clinton officials which they interpret as a shift to the center And they object to it as such But the ideological origins of Obama r

Cambridge MA I have been teaching a seminar on the Bhagavad Gita reading it with two classical commentaries by Ramanuja 11th century and by Madhusudana Sarasvati 16th century and two modern commentaries by Mahatma Gandhi and by Bede Griffiths the Catholic monk who lived for many years in

Treat yourself to this Christmas video message from the children of a primary school in south London to the local councillor in charge of housing — and prepare to shed a tear The school did a survey of the families of the schoolchildren and found that 80 per cent were in overcrowded conditions —

Father Jim Martin offers some parting thoughts on prayer in this last installment of his multi-part series You can view all of Father Jim s videos and other video segments on America s new YouTube page And keep an eye on The Good Word for video reflections on Advent and Christmas from the e

Pope Benedict XVI greeted a group of pilgrims this past weekend with a short discourse on the Feast of Christ the King that has an obvious application to the political circumstance of the Catholic hierarchy in the United States in the wake of President-elect Obama rsquo s decisive win among Catholi

Here are the notes from President-elect Barack Obama s transition team s interview of a bold non-partisan choice who came highly recommended for a cabinet position Jesus of Nazareth An excerpt nbsp nbsp 8 Briefly describe the most controversial matters you have been involved in dur

From Catholic News Agency comes this article showing that you re not the only person who is reading In All Things nbsp A small correction it was actually a blog post here not an article in the magazine An official from the Vatican s Secretary of State department nbsp has reacted to

Vice President-elect Joe Biden liked to say that his Catholicism created an entire culture that shaped his views on public policy as well as private and personal obligations Biden is just old enough to remember the Catholic ghetto in which whole neighborhoods were called by the name of the local Ca

The British media is today reporting — favorably here less so here — that the leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales is backing a call by London s mayor for a pathway into citizenship for Britain s 600 000-odd long-term undocumented migrants In reality it should be the other way