Our Lenten recommendations this year focused on taking up certain practices But in some cases giving up something may still be a good spiritual discipline In our next issue link to come our editors recommend giving up election news And over at The Jesuit Post Michael Rossman S J has pr

Do some human beings just die and that rsquo s it nbsp Two highly respected theologians I have been reading lately propose that the afterlife may not happen for everyone nbsp Their books affirm and support the reality of Christ rsquo s resurrection and his promise of eternal life for Christians

From Mensaje magazine via Mirada Global Should we be worried about China Its rise as a relevant actor is undoubtedly the central phenomenon in 21st century international relations The deep political and economic changes currently in course show a radical transformation of the international order

On Feb 10 Mary Ann Glendon Robert P George and others signed an open letter titled Unacceptable rejecting President Obama s proposed accommodation on the HHS contraception mandate An updated version of the letter signed by Cardinal Timothy Dolan was released today and is available here as

Read Karen Sue Smith on Meryl Streep in the The Iron Lady and Michael V Tueth S J on Octavia Spencer and the cast of The Help Fr Tueth also reviewed Woody Allen s Midnight in Paris which won best original screenplay and I reviewed Alexander Payne s The Descendants which garnered the

Cambridge MA On this first Sunday of Lent February 26 we heard a remarkably brief version of Jesus rsquo time in the desert ldquo And the Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness He was in the wilderness for forty days tempted by Satan and he was with the wild beasts and the a