A good friend of mine nbsp recently told me that he had seen the new Clint Eastwood movie Hereafter which focuses on questions of the afterlife nbsp I asked my friend a spiritual director what he thought of the film s portrayal of heaven and he just shrugged his shoulders nbsp Well he s

Cambridge MA Several weeks back I wrote about medieval Cistercian monk John of Ford rsquo s reading of the last verse of the Song of Songs ldquo Flee my beloved and become like a gazelle or a young stag upon the mountains of spices rdquo My point mdash nbsp and I am not sure I convinced an

Check out the brief NPR interview with National Catholic Reporter s John Allen about the batch of new cardinals named by Pope Benedict and what it may mean for the future of the Church In short probably nothing dramatic Allen says the announcement would be like a midterm election in which all the

Yesterday the Mid-East Synod concluded with a message from the Synod to the world or Nuntius Read the whole thing here The following are highlights Guided by the Holy Scriptures and the living Tradition we have reflected together on the present and the future of Christians and all peoples of th

The latest round of document releases from WikiLeaks nbsp regarding the Iraq War will be getting a lot of attention through the weekend rightly so It s too bad that will probably mean a report from California s Bay Citizen will probably be overlooked hat tip to Truthout A good portion of the nb

Here our latest offering from Mirada Global a reflection on the beauty of scientific equations from Gabriel Ferraro This symmetry of the equations expresses something very deep about the nature of electricity and magnetism In a way each one of these phenomenon is the consequence of the other