Many of the headlines reporting nbsp the pope s weekly nbsp addresses are unintentionally amusing often highly so nbsp But you can hardly nbsp blame headline writers for nbsp trying to sum up Angelus messages and sometimes encyclicals letters nbsp or other official statements in one succinc

Here are the notes from President-elect Barack Obama s transition team s interview of a bold non-partisan choice who came highly recommended for a cabinet position Jesus of Nazareth An excerpt nbsp nbsp 8 Briefly describe the most controversial matters you have been involved in dur

From Catholic News Agency comes this article showing that you re not the only person who is reading In All Things nbsp A small correction it was actually a blog post here not an article in the magazine An official from the Vatican s Secretary of State department nbsp has reacted to

Why Barack Obama's win made me think of the Magnificat.

AP reports that according to nbsp Cardinal Francis Arinze prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship Pope Benedict XVI is considering moving the sign of Peace from immediately before Communion to earlier in the Mass nbsp The brief story is here nbsp Arinze told the Vatican newspaper

The Superior General of the Society of Jesus Adolfo Nicolas S J nbsp in nbsp an interview nbsp with El Periodico a Spanish newspaper said that liberation theology which has been under scrutiny in the Vatican in the last several decades is a courageous and creative response to an unbearable

Yes Advent nbsp I wanted to be the first to say that word on our blog at least this year nbsp You may already know Fr Robert Barron professor of systematic nbsp theology at Mundelein Seminary in Chicago popular speaker and author of many books my favorite is The Strangest Way nbsp S

CCHD the Catholic Campaign for Human Development has been under attack lately--unfairly nbsp David Gibson nbsp sets the record straight in an online piece for America here Gibson nbsp In nbsp a denunciation that America blogger Austen Ivereigh declared ldquo manifestly unjust rdquo Fat

This surprising story reported by nbsp AP just came across our desk nbsp nbsp A snip The Roman Catholic archbishop of San Salvador opposes reopening the prosecution of Salvadoran officials in the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests the cleric said Sunday nbsp Human rights activists have pu

Here s an editorial from the LA Times on the Vatican s new directive on psychological screening of gay candidates for the priesthood nbsp And before you object to the nbsp idea of a secular paper editorializing on church affairs remember that were it not for The Boston Globe the church would