A micro-controversy related to last Spring s drawn-out battle over whether or not the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act PPACA the nation s engine of health care reform included end-run bureaucratese that would allow federal funding for abortion was stirred up by the release of guideline

In many respects, the U.S. Army and the Catholic Church could not be more dissimilar institutions. Both have radically different missions, divergent access to resources, and, seemingly, heterogeneous cultures.

Those who never got around to reading Jesus of Nazareth might have a better chance of getting through Pope Benedict XVI s latest work a children s book The 48-page book is called The Friends of Jesus and is based on texts from the pope s Wednesday general audiences The cover illustration by an It

Trento Italy ndash While the shifts in the Church that predicated the Council of Trent in the mid-1500s may not be quite as seismic as those put in motion by Martin Luther the nearly 600 moral theologians who have been meeting here since Saturday as part of a world-wide ldquo congress rdquo in

Fr Jim Martin is on retreat this week but you can still check out his latest online offering over at the Huffington Post where today he launched the site s first Scripture commentary series Here is the editors introduction The series will bring together leading voices from different religiou

Cambridge MA I recently came across a column in the On Faith section of the Washington Post by Loriliai Biernacki A friend of mine she is a professor of Indian religions at the University of Colorado Boulder and a specialist in the study of Hinduism Her piece is entitled ldquo A rich and st