In All Things

A correspondent in Zimbabwe a social worker writes A power-sharing deal between the MDC and Zanu PF has been agreed This is not what Zimbabweans voted for but it seems we must make the best of it if we are to save the country from complete ruin The very people who designed and implemented the

The campaign took a sudden turn back to reality yesterday For weeks we were treated to discussions of who was and was not a celebrity lipstick on pigs bridges to nowhere and the such Yesterday with the Lehman Brothers rsquo bankruptcy bargain basement sale of Merrill Lynch and the collapse

Here s the new trailer for the film Doubt starring Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman based on the Pulitzer-Prize-winning play by John Patrick Shanley The new movie focuses on a Catholic priest Hoffman accused of sexual improprieties by a sister Streep in 1964 The film will be o

Last night on AMC rsquo s hit drama ldquo Mad Men rdquo Father Gill the young Jesuit priest who has parked himself at the local parish returned for what is supposed to be the second part in a three-part story ldquo arc rdquo And you had to feel a little sorry for his parishioners First off

The death of David Foster Wallace who apparently took his own life last week is a permanent and perhaps underappreciated deep loss for theology in general and Catholic theology in particular As the commentary about his life and work over the last several days has begun to spell out Wallace s

The Sunday morning news shows ndash NBC rsquo s Meet the Press ABC rsquo s This Week amp c ndash are not actually watched by that many people But their power comes from two distinct sources First they interview people who actually make news Second they are watched by local news affiliat

At the Mass for the Sick which Pope Benedict celebrated in Lourdes France this morning nbsp he seemed to downplay the importance of miracle physical cures in nbsp favour of the idea of healing as an experience of God ldquo How many come here to see it with the hope ndash secretly perhaps nda

The Mass celebrated today in Lourdes by Pope Benedict XVI brought back memories for me of the one celebrated by Pope John Paul II on his visit in August 2004 As it turned out it was his last foreign trip He was already a very sick man and within a year he would be dead It turned out to be a powe

David Gibson author of The Rule of Benedict and The Coming Catholic Church and a regular blogger on Beliefnet and Dotcommonweal has nbsp a provocative piece nbsp on the abortion wars as a political challenge nbsp The full article ran in The Wall Street Journal on Friday Preview Obscu

In July I had the occasion to visit Galveston Texas a city filled with exquisitely beautiful historic churches The co-cathedral of St Mary and Sacred Heart church were my favorites and both are sitting in water this morning after the ravages of Hurricane Ike The cathedral is a small gothic bui