In All Things

The world rsquo s Anglican bishops gathered at Canterbury this week learned a new German word courtesy of Cardinal Walter Kasper head of the Vatican rsquo s Christian unity council Nabelschau is ldquo the tendency of looking too much at our navels rdquo he told nbsp ecumenical observers at a 2

Somewhere inside George W Bush rsquo s uncomplicated worldview there is a deep commitment to democracy and freedom Unfortunately the President is better at making that commitment manifest when he is casting his gaze abroad than when he is acting out the role to which he was elected executing th

The Bush Administration is reviewing the draft of a regulation that would require hospitals receiving federal funds to respect the religious freedom of health care workers by ensuring that workers do not have to participate in medical procedures that they consider morally objectionable The regulati

The McCain campaign is being taken to task by the press because their decision to hammer Barack Obama for cancelling a trip to a military hospital is not only mean-spirited but also is untrue First Andrea Mitchell skewered a McCain surrogate on television and now the morning papers are joining the

My husband and I are movie freaks Our earliest dates were to on-campus movies in college We ll see all kinds of movies romance sci-fi adventure documentary foreign independent animated whatever Since we live in a small town with limited cinematic offerings our favorite way to spend a s

In his address to the Lambeth Conference in its final crucial days the Archbishop of Canterbury has outlined what he believes the world rsquo s Anglican bishops need to do in order to find the unity which will carry them through their current crisis It is a blinder of a speech and I detect two b

In 2004 the organization ldquo Catholic Answers rdquo distributed voting guides in many parishes They highlighted five ldquo non-negotiable rdquo items for voters to consider abortion euthanasia embryonic stem call research human cloning and gay marriage If you needed to find five wedge i

This morning rsquo s Washington Post contains another disturbing example of how we should not be addressing illegal immigration issues in this country In Virginia a little noticed state law has gone into effect that requires the state rsquo s jails to inform federal immigration officials about all

Snowmass Colorado As I start this reflection I am finishing my annual retreat this time at St Benedict rsquo s Abbey way up in the Rockies and not very far from Aspen where I rsquo ve spent the last 10 days Making an annual retreat is a wonderful thing both for spiritual reasons mdash

It now looks as if the Lambeth Conference is beginning to go in the direction hoped for by both the Archbishop of Canterbury and Rome ndash preventing schism through the centralisation of authority nbsp The three major proposals are these nbsp 1 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp A new Ang