In All Things

Austen Ivereigh has done a great service by getting beneath the tabloid headlines about gay bishops and same-sex marriage to point out that the underlying difference in the Anglican Communion as found in the recent meeting of dissidents in Jerusalem has to do with the literal interpretation of scr

The Pauline Year a celebration of the life of Saint Paul believed to have been born 2 000 years ago began on the Feast of Sts Peter and Paul June 29 Here is Pope Benedict s reflection on Paul for that feast day in which he reminds us that the question for Christians to ask is not si

The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has responded to the new traditionalist Anglican network set up by bishops meeting last week in Jerusalem at the so-called Global Anglican Future conference or GAFCON He urges the GAFCON bishops to stop and think about what they are doing A

Barack Obama s campaign was trying hard to address to challenges to his candidacy this week Amidst charges that he is less than patriotic Obama gave a major speech in Independence Missouri yesterday And to shore up his credentials on foreign policy the campaign announced that Obama will be m

So there we have it a new Bible-based evangelical network of Anglican Churches mostly in the developing South has been formed at a conference of 280 bishops in Jerusalem as a counter-weight within the Anglican Communion This is not a split or schism But it can be likened to a Reformation w

A front page story in this morning s Washington Post highlights the effects of persistent false rumors about Barack Obama The rumors are spread on the Internet and by word-of-mouth this last still being the most effective means of communication devised by humankind Indeed the story s protago

The British press has been reaching for sacred metaphors to describe Nelson Mandela whose 90th birthday was celebrated with a celebrity-festooned Hyde Park concert in London last Friday night The icon of freedom has acquired Christ-like status in our time On stage he was a beatific presenc

David Shields an author and English professor at the University of Washington has written a sort of memoir combined with a science report called The Thing About Life Is That One Day You ll Be Dead My daughters were a little alarmed to see me engrossed in such a morbidly-titled book I think t

This coming week I make the transition to another Jesuit university I taught at Boston College from 2001-2004 then moved to Santa Clara University where I have taught for the last four years Now I am honored to be taking a position in the Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education at Fo

Above Tim Russert pictured with Catholic school children CNS photo In one of the strangest religious stories of the month Sally Quinn the longtime Washington Post reporter and co-editor of the Post-Newsweek blog On Faith wrote about her decision to receive Communion at her close friend Tim