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The Rev. James Martin, S.J., is a Jesuit priest, author, editor at large at America and founder of Outreach.
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A guest columnist today in the On Faith blog WashPost and Newsweek s is Sr Mary Ann Walsh RSM the director of media relations for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops nbsp She s tackling the complicated issue of the reconciliation of the House and Senate bills on health care nbsp Her led
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Elizabeth Scalia aka The Anchoress nbsp at First Things is someone who is always worth reading even if you sometimes come at things Catholic from a different nbsp angle than she does nbsp Her she is over at Inside Catholic on the New Mass es nbsp The Novus Ordo isn t going anywhere but man
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Look backward When God seems asleep in our lives or not present or when we want to say Don t you care sometimes it s best to look backwards and see where God has already been Looking for God in the past helps you trust that God is with you in the present and will be in your future too No m
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Things liturgical have a way of raising nbsp Catholic hackles Cackles even here at In All Things nbsp Maybe that s as it should be the Mass is the source and summit of Catholic worship so Catholics should take the celebration of the Mass and the other sacraments and other things liturgi
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Mary Daly, the self-described "radical lesbian feminist" theologian, provocateur (provocateuse?) and prolific author who, in the overly polite words of The Boston Globe, "tussled" with Boston College (over many things, but particularly over her decision not to admit men to her classrooms) has died, at the age of 81.
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From the Daily Telegraph news of a bishops nbsp row over Medjugorge nbsp Cardinal Christoph Schonborn the Archbishop of Vienna was subjected to unprecedented public criticism by Bishop Ratko Peric of Mostar for spending Christmas in the town in his Bosnian diocese where the Virgin is said to
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As part of nbsp our nbsp promise vow to keep you up to date on movies over the Christmas and Epiphany and Baptism season here s Jake Martin s review of Crazy Heart which is winning plaudits for Jeff Bridges s performance as a country crooner looking up from the bottom of nbsp a whiskey bot
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Says William Doino who writes for Inside the Vatican and contributed to The Pius War nbsp in a lengthy piece in the London Times today nbsp It s one of the most concise and well-documented nbsp defenses of the pope that you will find In the Autumn of 1987 during one of his many meetings with
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Nowhere in the New York Times in 1990 writes Peter Steinfels in his last Beliefs column today ldquo was there a regular treatment of religion for readers with a special interest in the topic as there was obviously for business and sports but also for science art architecture and many other
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nbsp In case you saw the recent New York Times story that was headlined Catholic Groups Suports Senate on Abortion Aid and started out with this graf In an apparent split with Roman Catholic bishops over the abortion-financing provisions of the proposed health care overhaul the nation rsquo s