The Church is always her best at a funeral a priest once said to me and those true words echoed in my memory as I watched the funeral of Sen Ted Kennedy The Catholic funeral Mass is so beautiful not least because it is so familiar not really different from other Masses In the face of grief

One reader asked for the text of the letter from Senator Kennedy to Pope Benedict XVI hand-delivered by President Obama to the pope on his recent visit to Vatican City portions of which were read yesterday by Cardinal McCarrick at the graveside service nbsp The full text is below along with the

Cambridge MA So here is the fourth of my entries on my trip to India this time regarding interreligious dialogue At the end of this entry I will respond to three of the comments you rsquo ve kindly posted in past weeks A good part of my trip was involved in what we can call interreligious di

According to Michael Paulson at the Boston Globe in an article earlier today Cardinal Sean O Malley who gave the final commendation at the funeral of Senator Kennedy was under intense pressure not to afford the senator whose deep faith and life of prayer have become more public in the past few d

Reading Tony Blair s speech to the Communion and Liberation meeting in Rimini in which he comments approvingly on Caritas in Veritate and talks of Faith in much the same way that Encyclical does I can t help rubbing my eyes thinking Imagine him saying this when he was Prime Minister Maybe you

NCR is reporting that Bishop Joseph F Martino of Scranton Pa has resigned abruptly nbsp nbsp In All Things readers will recall that Bishop Martino during a parish meeting last fall nbsp centering the USCCB s document Faithful Citizenship in the midst of the presidential election declar