In All Things

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O Connor s address to the global summit of Anglican bishops meeting at Canterbury reminds them that the framework they are currently seeking has already been agreed to by the Anglican Church in decades of Catholic-Anglican dialogue aiming at unity between the two Churche

As is tradition Barack Obama placed a note in the Western Wall when visiting Jerusalem this past week Someone took the note and published it in an Israeli paper It read Lord Protect my family and me Forgive me my sins and help me guard against pride and despair Give me the wisdom to do what

There have been so few consistently beautifully transporting spiritual exercises undergone in my life as the ones occasioned by the growing up of our daughter She is three years old and was in the car with me recently when I played Journey s 1978 Infinity album She is usually entertained by t

What you thought of Barack Obama rsquo s speech in Berlin depends largely on what you thought of him beforehand nbsp nbsp If you have been swept up by Obamamania the specter of 200 000 Germans cheering an American waving American flags without so much as a whiff of protest is such a happy co

Some commentators have suggested that Latinos will call the November presidential election Others have suggested that race mdash an antipathy between blacks and Latinos that in the past caused them to choose a white candidate over a black one mdash would not bode well for the mixed-race Senator Bar

Growing up summer TV seemed like an endless stretch of reruns and four-hour baseball games Twenty-odd years later I rsquo ve grown to appreciate those long baseball games and thanks to Netflix and TIVO I rsquo ll never have to watch a rerun again I rsquo m also happy to report that summer TV

Yesterday the Matthew25 Network had a conference call with reporters to unveil their plans for the general election The group is composed of believers who are Democrats and who are ldquo inspired by the Gospel mandate to put our faith into action to care for our neighbor rdquo The group is the

Barack Obama rsquo s tour of Afghanistan and Iraq is already paying dividends politically The pictures of enthusiastic troops cheering him on were worth a thousand words He is no peacenik a la Jane Fonda Ditto the photos of Obama in a helicopter with General David Petraeus They may not agree abo

nbsp Cardinal Ivan Dias Prefect of the Vatican s Congregation for Evangelisation has been addressing the world s Anglican bishops meeting at the Lambeth Conference This could be the first time the Anglican crisis has been likened publicly by a Vatican official to a degenerative disease Car