The anniversary of the death of Thomas Merton Dec 10 1968 nbsp is coming up and I offer this meditation from a few years back Spots of time rdquo is what the poet William Wordsworth called those places that imprint themselves so deeply into our minds that simply remembering them can lift our

Mulling over the Senate s health care reform vote this morning and wondering if I would truly be forced to reject a social reform I have spent my entire adult life supporting I found some consolation and common good sense this morning e-thumbing via iPhone through the New York Times opinion secti

The defeat of the Nelson-Hatch amendment that would have truly barred federal funding of abortion from the health care reform bill is a huge setback for the pro-life movement Today it appears that only one Senator Ben Nelson and a handful of Congressmen stand between health care reform that is t

Two Jesuits from the Society s European office in Brussels are at the Climate Conference in Copenhagen as NGO observers part of a team of Franciscans International Jos eacute Ignacio Garcia and Jacques Haers are keeping up a blog with posts in English and in Spanish Hat tip to the UK s redoubt

A great short piece by Melinda Henneberger at Politics Daily nbsp Actually I like to see pieces like just as much in these surprising places--like PD--as in in the Catholic blogosphere since they reach the seekers the curious the doubtful and disbelieving and make them think nbsp Happy Feast

Cardinal Jorge Lozano Barragan who had been quoted nbsp by Pontifex nbsp as saying nbsp that nbsp gays and lesbians could not enter the Reign of God says that he has been misquoted nbsp nbsp After his remarks were made public in Pontifex and made several Italian papers not to mention AP the