In All Things

It would be difficult to conjure up a more offensive tirade to ethnic Catholic ears than the one Barack Obama s pastor delivered after 9 11 about chickens coming home to roost Catholics do not have a monopoly on patriotism by any means but patriotism has a monopoly on the American Catholic mind

Sending out hundreds of Easter cards this year Attending way too many Easter parties Doing some last-minute shopping for gifts to place under your Easter tree Getting tired of all those Easter-themed specials on television I didn t think so How does Easter resist the commercialism tha

The New Deal Coalition drew the adherence of Catholics because it overlapped so obviously with the dominant themes in Catholic teachings about social justice Msgr John A Ryan who headed the Social Action Department of the Bishops Conference was so devoted to FDR and his programs that he earne

It was just a few weeks ago that I blogged about this but I wanted to celebrate today March 18 the 50th anniversary of a great epiphany that changed the course of Thomas Merton s life After years of feeling separate from other men and women as a result of his choosing to live a monastic

Next month Pope Benedict XVI will address the United Nations and we can expect him to denounce the Iraq War in very explicit terms The press will recall that Pope John Paul II warned against the unintended consequences of the use of force before the war No one would call either of these two popes

We have previously examined the critical role Catholics play in both parties primaries as well as in the general election And if you know nothing about Pennsylvania except the fact that it has a pro-life Democratic senator Bob Casey Jr you would know how important the Catholic vote is in the

Tom Hooper the director of the new HBO miniseries John Adams is in love with his subject at least as much as David McCullough showed himself to be in his bestselling book of the same title Not a scene of the seven-part miniseries debuting tonight on HBO takes place without Adams or his wi

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The martyrdom of Catholic Chaldean archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho reminds America that the war in Iraq is far from over Indeed yesterday a car bomb also killed 17 civilians in downtown Baghdad Earlier in the week five U S soldiers were killed while on patrol The surge had indeed lessened vi

There have been spades of media reports this Lent about other Christian denominations in the United States taking on and adapting traditionally Catholic devotions and Lenten practices as a young single friend of mine recently said gone are the days when Ash Wednesday at work could double for twent