In All Things

Here s a stunning development nbsp reported by Catholic News Service nbsp about the popular Marian shrine at Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina which demonstrates the Vatican s continued reluctance about the site nbsp The sanctions are about as severe as can be leveled against a priest sho

Evans and Novak Brooks and Shields Now we have Winters and Malone Listen to In All Things blogger Michael Sean Winters and America associate editor Matt Malone S J discuss the two party conventions on our special election 2008 podcast This is the first of a series of podcasts on the election

John McCain helped restore his reputation for straight talk when he finally referred the GOP sin that dare not speak its name I am grateful to the president of the United States hellip Of course not even McCain could call the president by name the only Bush mentioned by name was Laura McCain

Amid a chorus of hoots hollers and the occasional jeer Rudy Giuliani gave the keynote speech on Wednesday night Day 3 of the Republican National Convention Giuliani set the tone for the evening aggressively launching criticisms at the Democratic ticket Giuliani s claims ranged from the sligh

With the GOP convention wrapping up tonight Matt Malone S J and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend continue their discussion of E J Dionne s Souled Out lt i gt and the broader issue of religion and politics In his latest post Matt writes Dionne argues in his book that the religiosity of the Bus

Michael Sean Winters has just posted about Sarah Palin and her possible ldquo apostasy rdquo by being baptized twice first as an infant in the Catholic Church and later as an adult in the Assembly of God church But what Winters may not realize is that the Catholic Church did for a very long time

Gov Sarah Palin was baptized in the Catholic Church but later joined a Pentecostal church as a teenager the Wasilla Assembly of God Her new church requires baptism by immersion so at age 12 Palin and her mother and sisters were re-baptized in Beaver Lake according to the Los Angeles Times M

Here s the trailer for a new ish hour-long documentary on Dorothy Day which includes something I ve not seen before some filmed footage of Dorothy speaking on poverty nbsp If the full movie is as good as the trailer it s certainly worth the price nbsp More information on the movie can

Mike Huckabee rsquo s was the best speech of the night Mitt Romney rsquo s the worst Rudy Guiliani rsquo s was feisty and funny and he gave the toughest speech of either party rsquo s convention but it was strange to see a former mayor of New York use the adjective cosmopolitan in a derogatory

By dawn Christian homes in the village were smoking heaps of burnt mud and concrete shells Churches were razed their wooden doors and windows stripped off A Reuters first-hand account of the continuing pogrom against Christians in eastern India — Christians cower from Hindu backclash in Orissa