I have determined to spend the last week of Advent and the first week of Christmas meditating and reflecting on Edward Hicks rsquo The Peaceable Kingdom Hicks a Pennsylvania Quaker 1780-1849 was an autodidact as a painter although later in life he trained apprentices including the importan

Here s a story about St Joseph the hidden man of Christmas on Slate com What does his story have to say to modern-day believers Plenty For this story I interviewed both Lawrence Cunningham professor of theology at Notre Dame and Pheme Perkins professor of New Testament at Boston Col

The Holy Father rsquo s Ecology of Man speech has garnered a great deal of attention because one sentence in a very long speech made reference to the ways in which human sexuality falls short of the Gospel ideals What rsquo s often expressed and understood with the term lsquo gender rsquo is

From Reuters today VATICAN CITY Reuters - Pope Benedict said on Monday that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behaviour was just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction nbsp The Church should also protect man from the destruction of himself A sort of ecology of m

Greg Shemitz a photojournalist just sent us this link to his photos available online on his website of Cardinal Dulles funeral nbsp Mr Shemitz was on assignment for Catholic News Service nbsp Among them are this one of Jesuit priests processing past the casket of Cardinal Dulles nbsp

Rick Warren crashed George and Ali Stephanopoulos rsquo s Christmas party last night Not in the flesh of course but as a topic of conversation Washington rsquo s glitterati could not help themselves With the nation in the throes of a full-fledged economic crisis and with American troops still f