The New York Times reports on the push for personhood and a new anti-abortion amendment in Mississippi A constitutional amendment facing voters in Mississippi on Nov 8 and similar initiatives brewing in half a dozen other states including Florida and Ohio would declare a fertilized human egg

Sally Quinn of The Washington Post asked me that question recently and here s the answer in a video interview nbsp

The Los Angeles Times reports on a Mass offered for the twenty-fifth anniversary of a ministry program created by Cardinal Roger Mahony catering to those hit by the HIV crisis The then relatively new Roman Catholic archbishop of Los Angeles Roger Mahony spoke to an audience of gay and lesbian

From Mirada Global an essay by Jos eacute Antonio Gonz aacute lez Pizarro of the Universidad Cat oacute lica del Norte Antofagasta Chile From the moment that Stephane Hessel rsquo s little book Indignez-vous Time for Outrage was published the press has tried to fit the different social movem

Over at The Huffington Post I reflect on my recent participation in a Lutheran friend s ordination ceremony and I then explore some ways that ecumenism may begin in worship in an attempt to find common ground on doctrine From the post I was in Connecticut at a suburban Lutheran church for the or

From CNS with link to full text of the document here VATICAN CITY mdash A Vatican document called for the gradual creation of a ldquo world political authority rdquo with broad powers to regulate financial markets and rein in the ldquo inequalities and distortions of capitalist development rd