Part of what has been keeping me off the blogosphere has been a collection of issues such as illness two bad colds in quick succession the SBL Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings and Thanksgiving This is enough to grind writing for a blog to a standstill but there is still another

Upon assuming the crown, Queen Elizabeth I, famously told her subjects, “I have no desire to make windows into men’s souls.”  

The Feast of Christ the King is a relatively new feast It was first declared by Pope Pius XI in 1925 at a time of heightened nationalism and secularism Its biblical origins are very deep going back to the anointing of kings like David in ancient Israel as we hear in the opening reading In the N

Presidente Kennedy tuvo que ir a Dallas.   En 1960, su elección al cargo más alto de la nación estaba con el margen más corto del voto popular en la historia.

The President needed Texas, but the Democrat party there was splintered.

There was no blarney or bluster in Jerome Murphy-O rsquo Connor rsquo s classroom unless it was coming from him I saw this first hand when I had the privilege of being his student at Fordham University in the summer of 2007 for a seminar entitled ldquo Events in the Life of Jesus rdquo On