Praying with the Pope June 2009 nbsp nbsp nbsp General Intention Foreign Debt Relief That international efforts to help poorer nations may bring prompt concrete results especially to relieve the crushing burden of foreign debt nbsp With the crash of the Western banking system we have seen

Understanding the general fact of many of us in rock cultures having found secular music to offer practices that resist the smallness of our surroundings -- a finding not yet sufficiently glimpsed in another discipline theology tasked with thinking salvific resistance -- can hardly give the richne

It is election day in Virginia which shares a media market with Washington So this past weekend while watching the Sunday talk shows or the Lakers-Magic game I was bombarded with television spots for the three Democratic candidates for governor This has put me in mind of one of my pet peeves o

Remember The Mission that great 1986 film about eighteenth-century Jesuits in the Paraguayan jungle starring Robert de Niro and Jeremy Irons Its British director Roland Joffe is making a new Catholic drama - about the early life of Opus Dei and its founder St Josemar iacute a Escriv aacute de

Two hundred years ago June 8 nbsp 1809 was the cornerstone laying for St Patrick rsquo s Old Cathedral near Canal Street in what was then uptown nbsp New York City nbsp nbsp nbsp That same day nearby in New York City was the death of Thomas Paine author of Common Sense nbsp And an inte

The President rsquo s speeches in Cairo and Normandy were both remarkable the way his speeches are almost always remarkable The delivery is deft the oratory seems matched to the moment and the orator himself is at once so provocatively different from his predecessors starting with the color of his