Cambridge MA In November Vincent Nichols the Archbishop of Westminster and President of the Catholic Bishops rsquo Conference of England and Wales visited the great Hindu temple in the Neasden section of London As the Westminster website explains ldquo the visit took place on Saturday 21 No

As a companion piece to the Of Many Things nbsp this week here s a nbsp briefer and more business-oriented op-ed in The Wall Street Journal today called Merry Marketing which takes aim at corporations who use and abuse religious themes in their Christmas sorry holiday campaigns nbsp Happi

It s funny how much a movie can influence your spiritual life nbsp Jennifer Jones who died yesterday at 90 won an Academy Award for her performance as St Bernadette Soubirous in the 1943 film The Song of Bernadette nbsp At the time of its release Catholic schoolchildren were taken

Marx famously wrote of the idiocy of rural life He was wrong about that as so much else The benefits of rural life are many and those who continue to live in rural communities value their way of life in ways that Marx may not have understood and that other intellectuals continue to scorn but

McClatchy syndicate s Joe Galloway offers a sobering call to disarm on the latest incarnation of health care reform in the United States Following the appalling display by Connecticut s Joe Liebermann and the jaw-dropping turnabout by the DNC s Howard Dean it is hard to argue with his sobering th

Well the knives are out Senator Bob Casey has come forward with a compromise proposal regarding federal funding of abortion in the health care reform bill and some pro-life advocates are already piling on Mind you no one really knows precisely what is in the proposal at this point but why let a