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Signs Of the Times
Holy Week in Pakistan this year was set against a backdrop of suicide bombings that have killed Catholic workers.
Signs Of the Times
A group of Palestinian Christians, Muslims and some Jewish supporters managed to breach the tight security separating Bethlehem and Jerusalem on Palm Sunday.
Film
Though it may scare you at times, the film “The Eclipse” ultimately bestows a sense of tranquility.
Signs Of the Times
Twice during Holy Week liturgies, the pope was caught unawares when his aides spoke passionately about the barrage of criticism the pontiff has faced.
Signs Of the Times
L'Osservatore Romano hailed the new U.S.-Russia disarmament treaty on April 7 as a "significant and courageous step toward international security"
Reviving the nuclear nonproliferation agenda
Books
Thea Bowmans struggle to open the Catholic Church to African-American spirituality.
The Good Word
There is a ldquo seam rdquo in the first reading Acts of the Apostles 5 12-16 for the Second Sunday of Easter nbsp 12 Now many signs and wonders were done among the people through the apostles And they were all together in Solomon s Portico 13 None of the rest dared to join them but the peo
In All Things
The whole world now knows about Father Stephen Kiesle of Oakland the priest who tied up young boys and molested them sexually and whose request to be defrocked came before then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger The press is swarming with assertions that as the Washington Post headlined its story Future
In All Things
One factor you don t see listed by the National Review Board in their 2002 report to the U S bishops on the causes of clergy abuse is celibacy Because celibacy does not cause pedophilia But that hasn t stopped otherwise thoughtful pundits and commentators and among them even some Catholics from
In All Things
Like many other Catholic publications nbsp America nbsp has nbsp urged the church to step forward with all it knows as quickly as possible if for no other reason than to put an end to this brutal media dissection Surely someone was aware during the past weeks of protests to the contrary that the
In All Things
When I was a kid I really really wanted an Astronaut Barbie She seemed fully capable of taking on the final frontier despite the impracticality of her shiny pink-and-silver space suit and her not-quite-airtight helmet These days with NASA s manned space program coming to an end the plastic ico
The Good Word
Over the past two days the story of the healing at the Beautiful Gate of a man ldquo lame from birth rdquo has been read Acts 3 1-26 Peter and John encounter him at this Temple gate where he asks for alms Peter responds that he has no silver or gold but that he can offer something much bette
In All Things
Buried in a church news round-up in the Italian newspaper La Stampa lurks a highly significant story the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith CDF is working on a global policy to deal with clerical sex abuse which effectively extends worldwide the norms currently existing in the US and the
In All Things
A frank commentary by Frederico Lombardi S J the Vatican press officer on sexual abuse The debate concerning sexual abuse and not only that committed by the clergy continues with news items and comments of various kinds How can we sail through these stormy waters while maintaining a secure co
In All Things
This is a fine article by Timothy Radcliffe O P the former master general nbsp of the Dominicans on why one remains Catholic in difficult terrible times nbsp Why stay I must lay my cards on the table even if the Church were obviously worse than other Churches I still would not go I am not
In All Things
Earlier this week the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia Bob McDonnell issued a proclamation declaring April Confederate History Month Not mind you Civil War History Month Next year is the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War and it is undoubtedly a good thing to call
In All Things
We mentioned this protest in the April 12 Signs of the Times A group of Palestinian Christians and supporters march after Palm Sunday Mass from the Church of Nativity to Jerusalem and caught Israeli border police by surprise I think everybody was surprised how far they got past the checkpoint befo