The New York Times magazine notes that if Rahm Emanuel wins election for Chicago mayor next week as is widely expected it will mark the first time in 80 years save once that the city hasn t been led by a Roman Catholic mayor But Emanuel who is Jewish appears to have some close connections to

Is protesting outside a place of worship an acceptable way to express yourself I ve been considering this question today after reading the news of a group in Chicago marched in front of Holy Name Cathedral over the weekend to make Cardinal Francis George aware that they disapprove of his campaign ag

Noting that the majority of Catholics who serve in the 112th Congress are far more conservative than those in the previous two former George W Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson asks in the Washington Post ldquo What influence is this shift likely to have rdquo The short answer in Gerson rsquo

In an article that one might reasonably mistake for being from The Onion the BBC reports Catholic church gives blessing to iPhone app The Catholic Church has approved an iPhone app that helps guide worshippers through confession The program - called Confession - went on sale last week through i

From The Economist A LINE of Bibles snaking out of the door of the Friends of Israel Biblical Baptist Tabernacle means the afternoon service is about to start The church has been extended three times in ten years to seat over 10 000 people but it is still so busy that the faithful use Bibles

Reflecting a bit on Robert Putnam s warning that churches should resist the urge to act as political power players lest they risk alienating key demographics especially millennials I chuckled a bit to myself when I read two headlines from EWTN s newsfeed yesterday The first article Massachusetts

Recognizing that it s sometimes easier to focus on what can be improved in the church than to highlight what is working I want to follow my post on the Lost conference with something I experienced at the end of weekend the day after the conference ended A friend I met at Fordham is a lay ecc

What role does the church play if any to twenty-something Catholics in the United States This was the question that a group of Catholic thinkers writers pastors lay ministers and other church leaders attempted to answer this weekend at a conference held at Fordham University called Lost Twe

By far the biggest applause during Tuesday s State of the Union speech was in response to a message from the president offering support to American troops serving around the world especially in Iraq and Afghanistan Every person present in the chamber rose to his or her feet and stood clapping

Over in Books and Culture America s Jake Martin has an excellent review of three worthy tv series 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation both on NBC and The Big Bang Theory on CBS He writes The landscape of television these days is a grim one with little to appeal to a thoughtful reflective audi