If we fail to consider the difficulties faced by the Holy Family, we can be lulled into thinking that the first Christmas was a familiar, even cozy, affair.

Following up on Jim Keane s post below don t miss Grant Gallicho s post over at Dotcommonweal on Bishop Olmsted s decision to strip St Joseph s Hospital of its Catholic status nbsp It s a lot more nuanced than today s New York Times editorial which referred approvingly to the hospital s aborti

This is a repost of a nbsp post that was accidentally deleted when I pushed the wrong button nbsp Here rsquo s a line from The Catechism of the Catholic Church that is not I would wager particularly well known nbsp It has to do with the overall treatment of gays and lesbians in modern societ

Interesting to say the least nbsp The Vatican s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has issued a Note clarifying some of the confusion around the Holy Father s recent comments on HIV AIDS nbsp Now as far as I know nbsp there weren t many responsible commentators saying that the nbsp

Dissecting the topic on Fox amp Friends nbsp Or at least as much as I can in 3 26 minutes nbsp By the way I note that for all of Fox s televised anger over the so-called War on Christmas the lobby of the Fox News Building had a menorah but no creche Watch the latest video at video fo

Some very unfestive findings over at USA Today Come-all-ye-partiers trumps nbsp OCome All Ye Faithful nbsp for more than one in three people asked about their Christmas activities in a survey by LifeWay Research a Nashville-based Christian research organization A lot of Americans celebrate Chri

What is it about the Annunciation that is so captivating? Here's a meditation on how the story of Gabriel's visit to Mary can help us in our own relationship with God .

On Bloggingheads com which provides two people an extended--very extended given the digital age--opportunity to converse nbsp They invited me to have a conversation with Susan Thistlethwaite a UCC theologian at Chicago Theological Seminary and we covered the so-called War on Christmas the

No as Stephen Colbert tells us it s worse than that Jesus is for the poor