In All Things

The aging face of Ted Kennedy and the fresh face of Michelle Obama set the tone for the first night of the Democratic National Convention They had different roles befitting their different histories Sen Kennedy rsquo s task was to help unite the party and Mrs Obama rsquo s was to nbsp make her h

When Fr Roger Schutz founder of the ecumenical monastic community at Taiz eacute in south-east France attended the April 2005 funeral of Pope John Paul II he received Communion from Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger This raised a few eyebrows at the time — Shutz was a Protestant pastor — and gave ri

Only if you use too much incense nbsp More specifically from the sounds of this new study only if after returning home from nbsp Mass you are in the practice of incensing your apartment all day nbsp See the article on the newly discovered nbsp link between incense and cancer here nbsp n

Thanks to Greg Kandra over at The Deacon s Bench Greg is a deacon as well as a husband and ardent mediaphile who pointed out nbsp an profile in The Cleveland Plain Dealer of Sister Catherine Pinkerton of the Congregation of St Joseph nbsp nbsp The 86-year-old sister nbsp has been chosen to

The cause of human rights suffered a severe blow the past fortnight and no one will mention that fact in Denver at the Democratic Convention this week or at the Republican Convention in St Paul next week The issue did not come up in discussions of Sen Joe Biden rsquo s storied foreign policy cre

The moment Barack Obama chose a Catholic Joe Biden as his running mate it was inevitable that the press and others would raise questions about communion and abortion Readers will recall that in 2004 some bishops refused to admit John Kerry to communion in light of his pro-choice votes Senator

How many Catholics do you need for a parish There is no fixed figure of course in a depopulated area it might be very few in a built-up area it would be many more In the Diocese of Leeds in England – -an area which includes swathes of rural Yorkshire as well as some big towns — the bishop h

Grant Gallicho nbsp at Dotcommonweal has been doing an excellent job nbsp tracking the latest developments nbsp in the Archdiocese of Chicago here and now in the Diocese of Belleville here nbsp Though you ll be appalled nbsp it s essential reading nonetheless and shows that the sexual abuse

Now it rsquo s John McCain rsquo s turn How will Senator Obama rsquo s pick of fellow Senator Joe Biden affect McCain rsquo s choice of a running mate Here rsquo s one thought This is a change election Obama seemed to understand that from day one positioning himself as the change agent who can