In All Things

Bipartisanship has become a mantra in Washington as the nation faces an unprecedented economic crisis And after 20 years of slash-and-burn partisanship there is something to be said for bipartisanship But yesterday the blame for Congress rsquo s failure to structure a bailout rests partly with

It takes a European to ask this I know And I tread gingerly here – at least by my own largely ginger-free standards Only nbsp whatever happened to the death penalty as a moral priority for Catholics in the US presidential election Why don t they challenge their candidates on the issue It

Fr Jim Martin introduces centering prayer a freer form of meditation than lectio divina or Ignatian contemplation Visit our Youtube page for all of Fr Jim s videos Tim Reidy

Today rsquo s New York Times contains a story about the Community Synagogue in NYC east 6th Street and its hiring of a Lubavitcher rabbi Simon Jacobson to attract the spiritually curious and thus help save an aging congregation Part of the theological provocation of the story is that what man

In 1936 near the end of the election campaign a Roman Catholic priest gave a nationwide radio address endorsing Franklin Delano Roosevelt for re-election In this critical hour I urge you to use every effort at your command among your relatives friends and acquaintances in support of Franklin D

Why am I as a mass going staunchly pro life Catholic voting for Obama Of course I disagree with his views on Roe vs Wade but I think that his policies and programs more comprehensively follow Catholic social teaching than McCain s–and they even result in fewer abortions There s a lo

Here is Jim Wallis the editor of Sojourners magazine and a consistent voice on behalf of social justice and your own faithful blogger on PBS s Religion amp Ethics Newsweekly discussing the religious and moral implications of the financial crisis nbsp The show s host Bob Abernethy als

Multiple verdicts emerged from last night rsquo s first presidential debate depending on what question or questions a given voter had Overall the cumulative answers to those questions probably made the debate a draw which is a political win for Obama The most important question for Obama to answ

In the summer s box office smash The Dark Knight the Joker played by Heath Ledger does not run around Gotham spreading evil per se He spreads chaos And then watches good people choose evil in the midst of the chaos Yesterday for a variety of reasons the discussion of what government shou

Wall Street forgot that the money at issue was not just a dollar figure on a balance sheet but the life savings of a human person a grandmother who had earned her retirement or a married couple trying to put money away for their child s college education Thus Michael Sean Winters s last post