One of the first to note the rocker’s passing was a senior Vatican official, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, head of its Council for Culture, who tweeted the famous lyrics from Bowie’s 1969 classic, “Space Oddity.”

Coming together through a little music can bridge many a difference.

It's an ill wind for the future of the region a key player seems so indifferent to the consequences of its action in sowing sectarian division.

Looking at the potential for negative financial “contagion” effects throughout the region or the world after the recent meltdown and the suspension of trading in the Chinese market.

As we return to Ordinary Time and ordinary lives, God gives us manifold reasons for new years and new hopes.

On Jan 12th, America will live stream the John Courtney Murray, SJ, Lecture by Rabbi Daniel Polish