Peace to you and welcome to my first post for In All Things where I will be writing about ecological concerns My name is Elizabeth Groppe and I am a teacher of theology at Xavier University a Jesuit school nestled in the rolling hills of the Ohio River Valley I am also the mother of an exuber

Watching the Olympics this week If you tune into the men rsquo s 800-meter track final on Thursday pay attention to Kenya rsquo s David nbsp Rudisha the current world record holder and favorite to win gold Rudisha rsquo s coach happens to be a Catholic priest originally from Ireland who rsquo

Melbourne My weeks in Melbourne are drawing to a close and if you read my first and second entries you will know that it has been a good and interesting sojourn for me The weather has continued to be sunny and warm 60 degrees in recent days definitely a good model for winter A strand of my v

The Ethics of Bystanders to Divorce nbsp nbsp A publication of the Institute for American Values by M Christian Green discusses ldquo The Ethics of Bystanders to Divorce rdquo Propositions 8 July 2012 Americanvalues org nbsp She claims that divorce affects bystanders as well as the divor

An online publication called Faith amp Leadership published by Duke Divinity School recently approached me and asked me to consider a recent Pew study that found young Catholics to be leaving the church in large numbers and then reflect on why I remain I gave it some thought and I kept coming

A fellow In All Things blogger Fordham University Professor Tom Beaudoin is collecting data on the beliefs and practices of Catholics If you rsquo re interested in telling your story read on and take a survey From the researchers A new study is being conducted to better understand how and why