The era of blog-chair journalism only grows more pronounced nbsp The Washington Post essentially abandoned the rest of the nation this week closing bureaus in New York Chicago and Los Angeles to concentrate its declining resources closer to home Like a legion of other previously well-bureaued ci

A bit of history of religious tolerance nbsp and Jesuit history nbsp with Fr Andrew White S J in 1634 at St Mary s City nbsp nbsp nbsp in colonial Mary-land nbsp Quite fitting for Thanksgiving week See http www washingtonpost com wp-dyn content article 2009 11 24 AR2009112403653 html

Schadenfreude taking delight in the misery of others is a sin a grievous sin indeed one of the most grievous sins because it denies that essential sympathy with the human condition that is so obvious on virtually every page of the Gospels But in the realm of politics filled as it is with out-

A good and timely point from Denise Wilkinson the general superior of the Sisters of Providence of St Mary of the Woods St Mother Theodore Guerin s order on the Sisters website here

Two Sundays ago I nbsp had what writers of an earlier era would call a rollicking good time nbsp speaking to nbsp a group of about 500 Catholics on laughter at least I think they were all Catholics--they certainly nbsp got all the Catholic jokes and was nbsp interviewed on the topic by Marykno

A new blessed story courtesy of CNS and afterwards nbsp a reader s research NAZARETH Israel CNS -- A newly beatified nun from the Holy Land could serve as an inspiration for Christians who remain there said the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem nbsp The Nov 22 beatification breathes upon us a