My parish priest ndash who is not a Jesuit by the way -- this morning preached on St Ignatius of Loyola rsquo s remarkable insight into the way the movements of the spirit nbsp produce feelings that are a sure guide to where God is calling people Consolation ndash the movement of God rsquo s S

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

The Bush Administration is reviewing the draft of a regulation that would require hospitals receiving federal funds to respect the religious freedom of health care workers by ensuring that workers do not have to participate in medical procedures that they consider morally objectionable The regulati

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