Yesterday the Mid-East Synod concluded with a message from the Synod to the world or Nuntius Read the whole thing here The following are highlights Guided by the Holy Scriptures and the living Tradition we have reflected together on the present and the future of Christians and all peoples of th

The latest round of document releases from WikiLeaks nbsp regarding the Iraq War will be getting a lot of attention through the weekend rightly so It s too bad that will probably mean a report from California s Bay Citizen will probably be overlooked hat tip to Truthout A good portion of the nb

Here our latest offering from Mirada Global a reflection on the beauty of scientific equations from Gabriel Ferraro This symmetry of the equations expresses something very deep about the nature of electricity and magnetism In a way each one of these phenomenon is the consequence of the other

Among the editor of America Drew Christiansen SJ s distinguished contributions to the public life of the Church was to help create back in the 1990s the International Co-ordination of the Roman Catholic Church for the Holy Land The longstanding representative on it of the bishops conference of E

As I write this I am en route to Belgium for three days of meetings on the thought of Rene Girard the French-American historian literary critic and philosopher of the social sciences Girard is receiving more and more attention these days from theologians among many others for his insights into

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