This parody letter to the editor from Lily Coyle over at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune responds to the Rev Pat Robertson s statement that the earthquake in Haiti was the response of God over the pact that the Haitians made with the devil nbsp Michael Sean Winters had earlier commented on th

Pope Benedict XVI in his address to the nbsp synagogue in Rome today said that Pope Pius XII had saved Jews during the Holocaust in a discreet way nbsp But the president of the city s Jewish community told the congregation that the silence of Pius still hurts nbsp The nbsp two grafs nbsp

Two good pieces on Catholicism in the New York Times today nbsp First David Gibson s provocative piece on whether making saints of all popes which seems to be the current trend after all with Pius XII John XXIII Paul VI and John Paul II on track nbsp Gibson who quotes Christopher Bellitt

CNN has had the best coverage by far of the Haitian earthquake nbsp The network and its reporter Anderson Cooper who was apparently one of the first journalists to enter Port-au-Prince after the earthquake is to be greatly commended for bringing this nbsp immense human tragedy into our

A notice from the Apostleship of Prayer Full Text from Vatican Information Service At the end of today s general audience held in the Paul VI Hall the Pope launched an appeal for the dramatic situation currently being experienced in Haiti My thoughts go in particular to the population hit jus

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Among the almost 50 000 estimated victims of the terrible earthquake in Haiti was the archbishop of Port-au-Prince Joseph Serge Miot who died when his office adjacent to the nbsp Cathedral of nbsp Our Lady of the Assump

From our friends at the Jesuit Refugee Service In response to yesterday rsquo s devastating earthquake in Haiti Jesuit Refugee Service is mounting an emergency relief effort to provide lifesaving aid including food and other urgently needed items to the Haitian people Aid will be provided in par

As an addendum to nbsp Kevin Clarke s helpful nbsp blogpost here is the link to Catholic Relief Services nbsp to help those affected in Haiti nbsp Pray at home for the victims and their families help CRS here

You may have seen that Art Clokey the creator of Gumby and Pokey died this weekend at the age of 88 nbsp Most of the nbsp obituaries including this nbsp extensive one nbsp today at The New York Times focused on his more-famous creations the green man and his little red horse who stop-

David Van Biema s pieces in Time are always worth reading nbsp This one which looks at a trend that has flown largely under the religious radar is no exception nbsp The racial divide is falling fastest says Van Biema in evanglical Christianity In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr famously declar