Dan Gilgoff over at US News interviews Adam Clymer Senator Kennedy s biographer on the man s faith Some obituaries today are calling Ted Kennedy a devout Catholic How important was his faith to him personally It meant a great deal to him A friend of his told me how painful it was for him not to t

The always-worth-listening-to David Gibson has a fine piece over at Politics Daily on the passing of the Senate s lion nbsp It is tempting to view Ted Kennedy s passing as the end of an era both politically and culturally but also religiously -- the end of a reform-minded socially oriented Cath

I ll let you make up your mind what exactly is going on nbsp First the story from CNS Vatican official downplays report of planned liturgical reformsBy John ThavisCatholic News ServiceVATICAN CITY CNS -- A Vatican spokesman downplayed a report that major liturgical reforms are being considere

The USCCB has inaugurated a new website on the new translation of nbsp the nbsp Roman Missal the book used in the celebration of the Mass nbsp nbsp The website includes nbsp background history relevant documents FAQs and the like--as an aid nbsp to the church s transition to the new Missal whi

As I mentioned in last week s Of Many Things the Culture section will frequently feature online-only content especially helpful nbsp for those interested in limited-run nbsp exhibits movies and shows nbsp Here is a lovely review for example by Leo J O Donovan SJ president emeritus of Georg

Last night ldquo Mad Men rdquo viewers must have wondered if they had mistakenly tuned into another AMC show nbsp The first few seconds of the nbsp episode nbsp began with a piano riff and then surprisingly the screen filling with the image of a voluptuous Ann-Margret singing the openi

So says Phil Fox Rose in this post on Bustedhalo entitled For I Was Ill and You Cared for Me nbsp People of faith are not of one political party or the other mdash not all conservative or all progressive all right or all left But most people of faith believe as a core principle that we shou

Thanks to an alert reader who spotted this in the Letters section of the London Tablet nbsp In my earlier post on the decision of the archbishop of Tulsa to nbsp celebrate Masses ad orientem nbsp I included nbsp the Tablet s editorial about Archbishop Vincent Nichols Westminster communications

The church doesn t think that there s much conflict between evolution and faith the Vatican said as much just this year nbsp Still the battle between Darwin fans and God fans continues to rage nbsp Now here s Robert Wright author of The Evolution of God in the New York Times today on nbsp

Did Jesus laugh nbsp Most likely nbsp nbsp Do I like to laugh nbsp Most definitely nbsp nbsp Anyway this is just for fun nbsp I don t think we had our blog up and running when this thing came out nbsp Hope you enjoy it nbsp If you steal any of these jokes at least footnote me