In turning to the teachings of the Church Fathers on Matthew 15 22-28 I am drawing on the Catena Aurea of St Thomas Aquinas for Matthew who gathered portions of the Patristic writings on particular passages for each Gospel and which are now available online albeit in a rather old and stilted tra

Cambridge MA In my last contribution to this blog I wrote about my lecture course God Hindu and Christian This time still the comparative theologian I would like to tell you about my seminar a course dedicated almost entirely to one Hindu text the Vedarthasamgraha ldquo The Summary of th

nbsp nbsp nbsp My husband and I look forward every year to attending the Religious Education Congress Organized by the Los Angeles Archdiocese the Congress takes place in Anaheim which I suppose makes it the religious equivalent of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball team nbsp nbsp

President Obama convened his summit on health care reform at the White House yesterday Whether the event will prove to be the beginning of the end for the dysfunctional system we have today remains to be seen but there are encouraging signs The event showed the many ways in which the political lan

Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir responded to his indictment by the International Criminal Court by expelling foreign aid groups currently providing food water and medicine in Darfur Among the groups expelled are CARE International Doctors Without Borders and Oxfam According to press ac

The nomination of Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to be Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services has done more to ignite the intra-Catholic culture wars even than President Obama rsquo s decision to reverse the Mexico City policy As the announcement neared Catholic partisans of a

nbsp nbsp This brief notice Mark gives illustrates a number of points of his interest as he writes to Christians in Rome nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp First there is the fundamental central interest of the public life of Jesus the announcement of the presence of the Kingdom of God nbsp This means

The biblical passage which appears below and the subsequent paragraph are taken from the 2009 lenten meditations of the Anglican Church of Canada for March 27 hellip a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting lsquo Have mercy on me Lord Son of David my daughter is tor

Armchair travel no doubt began before there were either armchairs or travel, as we think of them today. The practice may have started as soon as people could communicate well enough to describe what lay on the other side of a mountain or a sea. It grew whenever an account rendered firsthand was reto

Arab Christians Assess Election Results ISRAEL-- Though former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-line Likud Party and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni’s more moderate Kadima Party both claimed victory in the Feb. 10 Israeli elections, a certain beneficiary of their virtual tie