In All Things

The draft language of the Democratic platform was released and strangely both pro-choice radicals and pro-life Democrats claimed victory in how the text treated abortion How can that be And who will be proven right Writing in Slate com feminist Linda Hirschman was delighted that the Democrats h

An inflatable church on a beach on the Adriatic coast of Italy is proving a hit with sunseekers The BBC has the story – with an explanation by a priest of what s it all about Video clip here The 30-foot chiesa gonfiabile — the style is not exactly Baroque — is the idea of street-evangelising

One of the reasons I keep AOL is because their homepage is a little like USAToday ndash if the editors at AOL decide to put something up front it has a good chance at affecting the mainstream culture The other reason I keep it is because I am a computer Luddite and AOL remains ideally suited fo

nbsp The McCain campaign saw the Russian invasion of Georgia as an opportunity to exploit their candidate rsquo s strong suit foreign policy with what amounted to a real-time version of Hillary Clinton rsquo s ldquo 3 a m rdquo ad McCain supporter Sen Lindsay Graham even borrowed the exact

Hear Fr Jim Martin on the newly approved translation of the English Mass Fr Jim s commentary aired Monday on NPR Listen to it here Tim Reidy nbsp

Disinternment discomfits — and all the more when the remains to be transferred are those of John Henry Newman the famous nineteenth-century English convert cardinal The British government has now allowed nbsp Cardinal Newman s exhumation and transferral to a marble sarcophagus in a church in Bi

An interesting follow-up to the previous post on the 8-years-old correspondence which came to light days ago which charted the Archbishop of Canterbury s evolving views on homosexuality Leading bishops in the Church of England have published a letter in the London Times defending Dr Williams and

Cambridge MA It is already nearly the middle of August and soon the new academic year will be upon us So it is time to finish the four-part series I began in May based on my spring seminar at Harvard on Pata ntilde jali rsquo s Yoga Sutras studied carefully but also read in light of Ignatiu

August 8 marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Raymond E Brown S S Brown combined the best in many areas mdash priest teacher preacher ecumenist writer and scholar He was hailed by Cardinal Roger Mahony as ldquo the most distinguished and renowned Catholic biblical scholar to emerge i

Much has already been said about the 40th anniversary of Humanae Vitae but this piece is a must-read from one of the giants of moral theology In quot Humanae Vitae 25 years Later quot Richard McCormick S J looked at the quot uneasy silence quot that followed the release of the encylical an