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As a former press secretary in the Catholic Church it was a source of constant amazement to me how the media loved any story that involved monks and modernity ndash while being entirely uninterested in a carefully-crafted intervention in the public square by a cardinal The sort of story that is

The world rsquo s Anglican bishops gathered at Canterbury this week learned a new German word courtesy of Cardinal Walter Kasper head of the Vatican rsquo s Christian unity council Nabelschau is ldquo the tendency of looking too much at our navels rdquo he told nbsp ecumenical observers at a 2

Somewhere inside George W Bush rsquo s uncomplicated worldview there is a deep commitment to democracy and freedom Unfortunately the President is better at making that commitment manifest when he is casting his gaze abroad than when he is acting out the role to which he was elected executing th

On our founder’s feast day, here are two of his most popular prayers, and one of his most popular meditations.

Brothers and sisters What will separate us from the love of Christ Will anguish or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or the sword No in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly through him who loved us For I am convinced that neither death nor life nor angels

The McCain campaign is being taken to task by the press because their decision to hammer Barack Obama for cancelling a trip to a military hospital is not only mean-spirited but also is untrue First Andrea Mitchell skewered a McCain surrogate on television and now the morning papers are joining the

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

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

If this is the end of the Anglican Communion I don rsquo t think anybody has told most of the people here rdquo was the Archbishop of Canterbury rsquo s recent summary of the difference between the way the world views the Lambeth Conference and the way those taking part see it He made the remar