Cambridge MA All week while mixing the business of school with the solemn events of Holy Week I have been pondering the existential question ldquo What shall I blog for Holy Week Easter rdquo Given my interreligious commitments the question has become ldquo How does the Resurrection affec

Michael Gerson has written a much-needed conservative Christian take-down of Ayn Rand up in his column for the Washington post nbsp Ayn Rand rsquo s adult-onset adolescence It rsquo s an appropriate topic during Holy Week nbsp Gerson outlines the conflict between Christianity and Rand rsquo s

The cage match between the bishops and theologians emerging out of the U S bishops Doctrine Committee s treatment of Fordham Professor Sister Beth Johnson grew more crowded this week The Catholic Theological Society of America has already gone on the record with its critique of the committee s cri

I m filing for next week s America on the world s first Ordinariate which is swelling in these days from 20 members to over 1 000 including 64 priests as former Anglicans are received into the Catholic Church in England and Wales in low-key ceremonies across the nation A whole new chapter in the

For nearly a year it s been a great privilege for me to be one of the members of the In All Things blogging team and I thank America for trusting me with this space I m tremendously grateful for everyone who clicks and reads and especially to those who take the time to offer their views or to sha

Last weekend I caught Robert Redford s new film The Conspirator which uses the case of Mary Surratt a Catholic by the way which the film notes and her complicated involvement with the assassinaton of Abraham Lincoln to draw out some modern-day parallels nbsp John P McCarthy nbsp provides a