Everyone from your know-it-all neighbor to your more-processed-than-you-are therapist to your holier-than-thou pastor will tell you that the holidays can be stressful times Even though you roll your eyes after hearing this for the umpteenth time you know they re right Why Oh for about a billion

More than 210 organizations are engaged in religious lobbying or religion-related advocacy in Washington D C a fivefold increase over the last 40 years according to a new report Lobbying for the Faithful from the Pew Research Center s Forum on Religion amp Public Life Collectively the gro

The New York Times reports that Afghan President Hamid Karzai recently outlined to the Afghan elders his proposal for a long American presence This comes as a surprise to anyone who believed Obama rsquo s promise that ldquo all rdquo American troops would be out of Afghanistan by 2014 And this c

There has been a great deal of ink spilled and pixels posted over the new English translation of the Mass that is the new edition of the Roman Missal which will be formally introduced into American parishes this coming Sunday nbsp Even the secular media has gotten wind of the changes with th

In preparation for next Sunday s rollout of the new English translation of the Mass Fr John Baldovin SJ professor of historical and liturgical theology at Boston College s School of Theology and Ministry offers this in-depth introduction to the changes in the Mass nbsp It s a longish presenta

Thinking I had to steel myself for the changes looming for the first Sunday of Advent was God rsquo s joke on me because the priest who presided over the Saturday evening Mass I just attended for the feast of Christ the King decided to go with the new translation one week early Glossy brochures in