In All Things

Just released by the USCCB is this statement on the election of Barack Obama and the abortion issue STATEMENT of the President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops ldquo If the Lord does not build the house in vain do its builders labor if the Lord does not watch over the city i

Father Roy Bourgeois M M nbsp the Maryknoll priest nbsp best known for work nbsp to nbsp close the School of the Americas the US-run school that had trained paramilitary forces primarily from Latin American countries some of whom carried out brutal murders has been told in a letter from the

Cambridge MA When the election was upon us in the past few weeks I was writing in this column about love now that Barack Obama is our president-elect it is a moment to reflect on the meaning of the election Instead of any wide-ranging reflection mdash I am no pandit mdash I would like simp

A typically astute article by Peter Steinfels–one of his very best–in The New York Times on the Catholic vote here Here is Steinfels Many Catholics may understandably feel that the bishops are talking out of both sides of their mouths Catholics are not supposed to be single-issue voters b

The post-mortem over episcopal interventions nbsp in the nbsp election is likely to dominate the bishops meeting nbsp in Baltimore Thomas Reese SJ here and John Allen over at NCR have excellent analyses of who will be waving the surgical knives and what they hope to establish There s a second

Here s news from Bill McGarvey editor of Bustedhalo com the website for young adult seekers and believers about a fun new idea for pilgrimage In an age such as ours is it possible to reinvigorate that old model nbsp and bring a spiritual dimension to a 21st century holiday nbsp Before n

From Thomas J Reese S J senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center in Washington DC and former editor in chief of America one of his typically astute analyses of the U S bishops approach to the political sphere nbsp Bishops Plan for Dealing with a Democratic Washington On No

For those of you who won t be able to see Frank Langella in the revival of A Man for All Seasons in New York here s the next best thing Fathers Jim Martin and Mike Tueth sit down with Emily Brennan of Columbia University to discuss the new production The panel discusses among other things

Forgive me Father for I have sinned It has been two weeks since my last confession I really like Sarah Palin Palin has been the focus of many post-mortems most of it unfair The only time the GOP was excited or McCain led in the polls was in the immediate aftermath of her selection as Veep a

On Monday Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City joined a long list of bishops issuing increasingly apocalyptic warnings about the consequences of Barack Obama winning the presidency He urged voters to consider their eternal salvation Evidently Cardinal Bertone considered his eternal salvation and