The Wire by far my favorite show on television is now in its fifth and final season on HBO Even if you haven t been watching this sprawling Baltimore-based drama you can catch up with this handy synopsis of seasons 1-4 As I noted in my recent OMT each season of The Wire focuses on a di
Foolish as it would be to look for deep theological insights from The View Joy Behar s recent statements on Catholic saints a not existing any longer and b needing medication was about as close as you could come to a nice Youtubable public display of anti-Catholicism for any who doubt
The exit polls from New Hampshire may keep Mike Huckabee awake tonight We all know that Huckabee won in Iowa because of the big turn-out of born-again and evangelical voters And we all knew that Huckabee would carry the evangelical vote in New Hampshire but still lose the primary because there jus
If you want to see how the evolution of doctrine works in practice look up Avery Cardinal Dulles learned article Who Can Be Saved in February s First Things In a succinct and brisk narrative Dulles describes how Christians developed their theological reflections on salvation from scriptura
America is now accepting submissions for the Foley Poetry Contest Details here Last year we received over 1 000 entries from all over the world The youngest writer was 8 the oldest 89 according to poetry editor James Torrens S J The winner was John Slater a Trappist monk from the Abbey of
The General Congregation has begun with a homily by Cardinal Francis Rode C M prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life It s included here on Creighton s wonderful GC 35 website GC 35 Info The photo is by Don Doll S J a photo