As we have seen organizational tool of Mark consists of Jesus meeting his opponents one after the other and answers arguments specific to each of these opponents Jesus had cleansed the Temple a prophetic or messianic gesture only to be challenged by the Sanhedrin who asks by what authority

Ambassador to the Holy See is not like most ambassadorships For starters the First Amendment notwithstanding it is the only position in the U S government that involves formal recognition of religion Ambassadors are not accredited to the Vatican City-State the 103 acres on the west bank of the

Cambridge MA I have been making entries for In All Things for almost a year now and by my count this is the 25th such contribution I have recently written of dreams or nightmares about elections and accountability in the Church interreligious violence and love I have also tr

It was almost painful watching the CEOs of the big three automakers testify before Congress These nbsp former titans of industry nbsp unconvincingly blamed the crisis in the financial markets for their imminent collapse a reverse Deus ex Machina that is undoing years and years of thoughtful forwa

If we have read of Jesus power over sin sickness nature death in the first eight chapters we now read of Jesus wisdom whether it be the wisdom expressed after each of his three prophecies about the passion resurrection or it be the wisdom he now shows in his brief teaching in the Templ

Spooky I suggest in this blog that the Archbishop of Canterbury take bishops to Lourdes -- and then he does Then a few weeks ago I come up with something called CathPod only to learn now that nbsp about that time an application called iBreviary was being launched Report in Italian here nbsp

CCHD the Catholic Campaign for Human Development has been under attack lately--unfairly nbsp David Gibson nbsp sets the record straight in an online piece for America here Gibson nbsp In nbsp a denunciation that America blogger Austen Ivereigh declared ldquo manifestly unjust rdquo Fat

On Sunday last I had a conversation with a devout Catholic woman 16 years of Catholic schooling niece of a revered deceased Jesuit of the California province nurse at a Veterans Administration hospital communion minister at her parish who was hopping mad at the California bishops for funding a

There are many reasons to admire Abraham Lincoln His ability to bring former political rivals into the Cabinet and to manage their ambitions was one of his most remarkable political accomplishments Whether Lincoln merely wanted to keep his enemies closer than his friends or whether he saw unique p

Here s an editorial from the LA Times on the Vatican s new directive on psychological screening of gay candidates for the priesthood nbsp And before you object to the nbsp idea of a secular paper editorializing on church affairs remember that were it not for The Boston Globe the church would