Bad news about poverty disease and disaster abounds Today in the spirit of Thanksgiving Catholic Relief Services offers another perspective Good News mdash For a Change highlights major strides in the fight against global poverty that are making a real difference in people rsquo s lives This f

Just posted Leo J O Donovan S J reviews Ferdinand Hodler View To Infinity now at the Neue Galerie in New York When Fyodor Dostoevsky and his wife visited the Kunstmuseum in Basel Switzerland and discovered Hans Holbein the Younger rsquo s ldquo Christ in the Tomb rdquo of 1521 th

I am sure I am not the only devout Catholic in good standing who was a bit stunned shocked even to read the story widely reported in The Associated Press and in columns on the blogs Huffington Post Daily Kos and the Daily Dish of a young boy Lennon Cihak from Barnesville Minnesota who was r

Our contemporary Cassandras have been proven right in Gaza It is impossible to leave the pot of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the stove unattended for very long without it boiling over The Hamas rocket attacks on Tel Aviv and Jerusalem the Israeli bombardment of Gaza and an impending g

Catholics comprise 30 of the new Congress according to a new report published by Pew today The newly elected 113th Congress includes the first Buddhist to serve in the Senate the first Hindu to serve in either chamber and the first member of Congress to describe her religion as ldquo none rdq

Every constellation of ritual belief and ethical practice that we call religion finds its way to inventing something like blessings for children of more or less consequential form Some such ritualizations are taken to be of deep consequence or significance -- like naming christening baptism