Fascinating nbsp Michael Paulson s blog Articles of Faith nbsp has this story of a Vermont museum featuring a display of Wampum belts of faith with a Jesuit connection Two 17th century beaded wampum belts made by Native Americans in New England for French Jesuit missionaries as expressions

I wanted to say something on the Anglican Communion s apparently inevitable slide into schism but nbsp today rather than document disintegration I d rather nbsp edify nbsp nbsp This may be because I m just back from Worth Abbey a Benedictine monastery an hour south of London where I went for

So here I am nbsp in Cape May New Jersey at a Jesuit vacation house ready to go to the beach yes even Jesuits need occasional breaks Gentle Reader nbsp when I duck into a small computer room check my email nbsp and then log onto nbsp Google News type in the word Vatican and find the ab

Memo to those who missed this week rsquo s Sotomayor hearings Imagine a cocktail conversation between Hume and Aquinas or Karl Marx and Adam Smith or maybe even Jack Webb and Cheech Marin and you get some idea of what this rigmarole sounded like two people Sotomayor and her G O P interlocutors

I met my first Swami the other day at a panel discussion in my suburban Hudson river town library no less nbsp A new local group had been formed to explore questions of spirituality in action with a special focus on science and the professions The seminar was titled ldquo Coping with Crisis

It has been a week since the Holy Father received President Obama in audience The following day the Washington Posr carried a picture of the meeting front page and above the fold but only gave the meeting two paragraphs at the ends of a story about the G-8 summit A mere ten days ago Pope Benedi