Cambridge MA I recently wrote a remembrance of a very old swami Swami Sarvagatananda of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society This time I write of a middle-aged swami who is by all accounts still very active in his ministry nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp The occasion is that recently I was sent a copy of

There were many in the congregation at today s Mass of Installation of the new Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols who smiled at the moment when his predecessor Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O Connor handed him the crozier They remembered how in 2000 it was the then Bishop Nichols who handed t

Dan Gilgoff of US News has the inside story on the reception into the Catholic church of Newt Gingrich nbsp nbsp nbsp An excerpt The moment that finally convinced me to convert was when Benedict XVI came here to the United States and Callista in the church choir sang for him at the vesper

For the past forty years since the very inception of the Moral Majority the Religious Right has organized itself around certain core themes They are pro-life pro-capitalism remember the old Soviet Union was still around and pro-Israel In 1980 The Rev Jerry Falwell and a group of American

Beliefnet asked a few people to write a prayer for those facing hard economic times nbsp Here is what I wrote nbsp Maybe it will help you nbsp or someone you are close to nbsp The rest are here Please O my God I know that you nbsp love me And I know that you want me to be happy safe and secu

Now that the Notre Dame controversy is behind us we can move on to something non-controversial like President Obama rsquo s upcoming Supreme Court nomination I am on record supporting Al Gore because his nomination would acknowledge if not rectify the supreme injustice done to him in Bush v Gor