Pity Opus Dei Just when they ve dampened the fires of the Da Vinci Code they find themselves implicated in an extraordinary story of mafioso murders secret service intrigues and of course our old friends Archbishop Marcinkus and the Vatican Bank To be fair Opus Dei s involvement in the story o

Do you ever wish nbsp that you were done learning That instead of being tested life was easy leisurely Years ago when still a teenager I wanted to start a religion called ldquo Incidental Meditation rdquo or ldquo I M rdquo for short At the heart of the religion was that the teachings wo

An interesting article from CNS highlights the similarities between the backlash against the building of Park 51 and the prejudice of 19th-century Nativists The controversy over plans to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque a couple of blocks away from ground zero in New York is but the late

After many many years of wrangling the story of nbsp which will be familiar to readers of America the new English-language translation of the Roman Missal has finally been approved nbsp This marks the first significant change in the English-language Mass since the Second Vatican Council nbsp

Blessed are the peacemakers we Christians are told in our marching orders Too many times we don t recognize individuals as peacemakers until after they have died and we fail to recognize peacemaking efforts from individuals we are accustomed to reading about every day About a week ago I wrote

There has been a lot of talk about the Park51 facility and the purportedly dark and Dr No-ish intentions of its bankrollers and founders The so-called ldquo Ground Zero mosque rdquo is on the verge of becoming this election season rsquo s rhetorical blackhole It rsquo s unclear what comes out