Some breaking news from the Vatican today via Reuters The Vatican has hired an American journalist from the Fox News Network and member of the conservative Catholic group Opus Dei to help improve its relations with the media a senior Church source said on Saturday Greg Burke Fox s Rome-based

Douglas W Kmiec U S Ambassador ret a legal scholar and the Caruso Family Chair in Constitutional Law amp Human Rights at Pepperdine University in Malibu California sent us this guest blog today Empathy Applied-- Why President Obama will win the health care case Those predicting defeat

Cambridge MA Another reason for reading Professor Margaret Farley rsquo s Just Love the book recently censured by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is a reason that might occur mainly to people like me theologian-cum-Hinduism-scholar-and-comparativist it talks about the Kama Sutra

nbsp nbsp Theologian Denis Edwards in his inspiring book Breath of Life A Theology of the Creator Spirit retrieves and develops the truth nbsp of God rsquo s love for creation nbsp He quotes St Basil rsquo s insights into the symphony of creation in which God the Artist embraces and deligh

Last night on Lawrence O Donnell s MSNBC show The Last Word nbsp we discussed Nuns on the Bus Catholic social teaching and Jesus s invitation to care for the poor in a five-minute interview nbsp That segment can be found here nbsp After nbsp the nbsp show we nbsp continued our conversation

A Pew survey examining doubt and belief in God has been making the rounds the past few days with headlines claiming that the generation dubbed ldquo millenials rdquo is fleeing from belief in record numbers Take this example from Talking Point Memo The younger generation is abandoning God in dr