2025-03-31
2025-03-31
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- Roma locuta: Is anyone listening?
- Model priests, long lives, short shrift
- Signs of the times: Obama's eye
- SF Catholics facing a Holocaust?
- Are social encyclicals binding?
- Catholic Identity Crisis resolved: An ID card!
- Dolan the Diplomat
- Mary Ann Glendon bows out of Notre Dame event with Obama
- Take the Easter Quiz!
- The Vatican and Notre Dame
- Terrible beauty
- Superstition and Religion: My take at the WSJ
- The "invisible hand" of market-based morality
- The Irish according to The Simpsons...
- St. Patrick: Did he exist? What did he look like? Does it matter?
- Angels & Demons, Howard v. Donohue
- Bishop D'Arcy: Notre Dame made "terrible breach" with the church
- Barack Obama: Our first Muslim president?
- Whose party is it, anyway?
- Barack Obama: Prophet of our civil religion
- Obama's abortion reduction packaging
- Notre Dame's fundraising: Thank you, Obama?
- Angels & Demons: Read all about it right here
- Benedict as Reagan
- Obama supporters: Russell Shaw wants an apology
- "Sue the bastards!" (Even if they're church ladies.)
- Blogs Worth Reading
- "Casting the first stone"
- An evangelical supporter's disappointment in Obama
- Archbishop Burke to Terry: Be liberal in denying communion
- Notre Dame's exit strategy: Invite Gingrich instead
- Obama splits the baby. And denounces cloning.
- No "Capitol punishment" on communion
- "Katrina was New Orleans' fault"--another new Benedict bishop
- Do they really want to go there?
- Prologue to Pope's meeting with Jewish leaders
- Can Bono save The New York Times?
- Summer reading: A can't miss suggestion
- When does history become historic?
- Picking Palin: McCain's Folly, or "crazy like a fox"?
- Among the Unbelievers: New poll shows secularist strength
- Thomas Merton, 40 years on...
- Quote of the Day
- Traditionalists and anti-Semitism: Hardly strangers
- Vatican issues "punitive" measures against NY Jesuit
- Haight update: Vatican action "not definitive"
- Is the Vatican pro-Hamas?
- Galileo gets his due...
- Mother of God: No easy job
- Obama's Mexico City repeal: A pro-life policy?
- Of Protestants and Presidents...
- "Life and death for people in Gaza is the same..."
- Syrup with your Saviour?
- The future of Catholic politics?
- Obama NOT "aggressive, disruptive and apocalyptic"? Cardinal Stafford reconsidered...
- Pope Obama I? Well, sort of...
- Humbug: Old Fogey, SJ
- REALLY Original Sin
- Last-minute gifts!
- B16: Save the rainforest--Stop gay marriage!
- Tim Russert: Passing of a man...End of an era?
- The Catholic case for "another" US-led invasion...
- Apologia pro vita sua...Kinda
- Obama's faith-based administration?
- Roma locuta: Is anyone listening?
- Encyclical upshot: Is the Pope a liberal?
- Model priests, long lives, short shrift
- Joe Biden and the Catholic Challenge
- Summer reading: A can't miss suggestion
- Heck with the swallows--let's all go back to Capistrano...
- Catholic Channel surfing: John Paul & Howard Stern?
- Another Holocaust-denying SSPX leader
- Traditionalists and anti-Semitism: Hardly strangers
- Egan leaving? "The piano is still here..."
- Buon compleanno, Citta' del Vaticano!
- Williamson removed as head of SSPX seminary
- SSPX: Did tough talk win papal concessions?
- "Life and death for people in Gaza is the same..."
- Thomas Merton, 40 years on...
- Obama NOT "aggressive, disruptive and apocalyptic"? Cardinal Stafford reconsidered...
- Vatican issues "punitive" measures against NY Jesuit
- Papal visit to the Holy Land: Another victim of the violence?
- Christmas Quiz: How much do you really know?
- Holy Cross head writes to Obama re Notre Dame
- Pope: Investigate the Legionaries of Christ
- Really early warning on abusers: "Even an island is too good for these vipers"
- "Ressourcement" or "Aggiornamento"? A final note on condoms
- Archbishop Burke to Terry: Be liberal in denying communion
- Phoenix Bishop says Notre Dame prez "disobedient"
- "It sure beats sitting at home doing our last-minute tax returns..."
- Blairs Glitch Project: Church faux pas on condoms and gays
- And back to the sublime...If you like Peeps
- SSPX Bishop Williamson apologizes. Sort of...
- Pope in U.S. dominated religion coverage in 2008
- Coulter v. Maher: The Blond leading the Blind
- David Carradine and Thomas Merton...
- Was the Pope right about condoms and AIDS?
- George Tiller: Portrait of a...serial killer?
- More right-wing violence: Holocaust Museum shooting
- Tiller abortion clinic closing permanently
- Saint Newt's conversion: "Part of me is inherently medieval."
- Poll on Notre Dame controversy: Good news, bad news
- Scottish Cardinal on the uses of controversy
- Moving on: Notre Dame looking for Glendon replacement
- Mary Ann Glendon bows out of Notre Dame event with Obama
- Pope in the Holy Land: "Keep your head down--in prayer"
- Abortion rights support falling, gun rights support rising
- "America" on Notre Dame: Beware neo-Donatists!
- Was More a bore? (In "A Man for All Seasons," that is)
- Sarah Palin: Religionless Christian?
- The "anti-Mom" as a new anti-abortion icon
- Abortion? Gay marriage? It's the (stupid) economy!
- Bishops v. Politicians: An abortion alternative
- Catholics and Politics: What now?
- 50 Bishops advocate "single-issue" voting
- Picking Palin: McCain's Folly, or "crazy like a fox"?
- "Palin's pregnant!" Easy, easy...It's only her unwed 17-year-old daughter.
- The Battle for the Catholic Voter
- The Way to The Kingdom
- The Greatest Gift
- Inspiration
- Create Abundance
- True Friendship Is Caring & Sharing!
- “A Love Letter To Japan”
- Unconditional Love
- Dare To Be Different!
- Turn Lemons Into Lemonade!
- 6 Barriers That Hinder Preachers and Teachers
- The World Depends On You!
- The Power of Persistence
- Moving Fast?
- We Love From Heart to Heart
- Adversity
- Nourishment
- Go 4th & Multiply!
- The Last Cab Ride
- Expect Good Things, Expect Miracles!
- The Tragically Predictable Result When We Ignore Guardrails
- Sun/The Gentle Wind
- You Are Growing.....or Dying!
- For Everything You Lose, You Gain Something!
- Philippians 4 Challenge: Day 20
- How Do You Isolate Your Soul Muscle to Strengthen It?
- Philippians 4 Challenge: Day 21
- Success in All Areas
- Senator McCain: Take Down this Ad
- How long, O Lord, how long?
- A Note from the Pigeon Hole
- The Torture Memos - Dick Cheney vs. Jesus
- Iowa Blesses Gay Marriage
- Dueling Visions of American Renewal
- A Room of Our Own
- Happy Progressive Mother's Day!
- The Stimulus Package: A View from The Pew (by Rev. Donna Schaper)
- Pushing Obama Towards Justice and Peace (by Mark Johnson)
- Ted Haggard, The Trials of a Gay Evangelical
- Gov. Sebelius' Catholic Supporters Sideline Donohue
- President Obama and his Pastors - Listen to Religious Women for a Change
- Refueling Detroit
- The Urgency of Now - Obama Must Act on Gaza
- Obama: the New Anti-Abortion Poster Child (by Kate M. Ott)
- Text of President Obama Inaugural Address
- God in the White House - Randall Balmer talks to Jon Stewart
- Bristol Palin: "Abstinence is Not Realistic"
- The Religious Case for Gay Marriage
- The future of Catholic politics? (Again)
- Jim Walllis Supports Obama's Abortion Approach
- Sick of Rick
- Making History
- Obama Signs Executive Order of American Ideals
- Obama Anti-Abortion Video and Real Abortion Solutions
- Barack Obama and the (progressive) Religious Revival
- Dear Rick: A Lesson on Race
- Shame on President Obama for Not Meeting with HH the Dalai Lama
- The Power of Words: President Obama Receives the Nobel Peace Prize
- Close Guantanamo Bay - One Step Closer
- We Tried to Warn Obama...But He Wouldn't Listen
- The Pope's New Encyclical: No Communion for Economic Sinners?
- Gay Bishops and the New Orthodoxy of the Episcopal Church
- Health Care and the Republican's Waterloo
- The MBA Oath and Morally Mature Capitalism
- Praying for Peace (is not as easy as it sounds)
- Terri Schiavo, End of Life, and the Health Care Debate
- Three Responses to a Conservative Critic on Health Care Reform
- America's Mortal Sin: Class Bias. A Solution: Parochial Schools.
- The Pastor Problem '08 Revisited
- Cizik & Civil Unions: Evangelical leader ousted over supportive comments
- The future of Catholic politics?
- Sitting Down for Peace in our Time
- The 12 Tribes of American Politics in the '08 Election
- The Election, Immigration, and the Gospel, by Gabriel Salguero
- Special Election Message from Martin Sheen
- God is Doing a New Thing (by Nicole Symmonds)
- Catholic and Politics: What now?
- One more protestor
- Obama Wins at Saddleback!
- Palin and the Ex-Catholic Factor
- Progressive Purity Tests
- McCain Pulling Ahead?
- New McCain Ad Implies Obama is the Anti-Christ?
- McCain and the Eye of a Needle
- Reclaiming the "L-word"
- Tricky Terrain: "Progressive" and "Religious"
- A Note from the Pigeon Hole
- The Racist Threat to Obama: Bigotry in the Head vs. the Polling Place
- Notes from the Food Line
- Beyond Partisanship, Part II: The Al Smith Dinner
- Donna Brazile: A good Catholic girl lets loose...
- Crescents among the crosses
- Catholic Bishops Should Stay Out of Politics (by Chris Korzen)
- "Where Your Treasure Is": The Economy and Values
- "Barry" & the Downstream Media
- Kmiec rebuts Chaput: Good Catholics can vote for Obama
- McCain on Letterman--Palin on SNL?!
- "Racism is a sin"...A bishop speaks out
- Join Us in Responding to Dobson 2012 Letter
- Abortion & Catholics: Big wedge--small impact?
- Buddhist Values in the Public Square
- The God-less Debate
- No debate in Mississippi? Well, at least we wouldn't have to help all those poor, deprived visitors understand the differences between grits and hushpuppies, cornbread and cake... molasses and glue.
- Plenty of Punches, But No Policies
- A Prayer for a Satisfying Life
- Save The Planet!
- Take Positive Action!
- Inspire Kindness
- Little Wins Turn Into Big Wins
- God's Prayer
- In The Words of the Dalai Lama
- Your Divine Heritage
- Goodness, Kindness & Unconditional Love
- The Ebbs & Flow of Life
- The Prospering & Healing Power of Love
- My new year's resolution and what it means for my blog
- Hanukkah art projects - no cookie-cutters allowed
- Edible Purim baskets. And, introducing...the cookie fairies!
- The last day of school, or, what to do with all that stuff
- Rosh Hashanah Seven Vegetable Couscous - a recipe and a story
- Preparing for the High Holidays - blogging the month of Elul
- Can you take a vacation from keeping kosher?
- Birthdays
- Scenes from the Garden
- A recipe review of questionable value
- Experiential Jewish Education. With cake.
- Potluck dinners - a recipe for a relaxing shabbat dinner
- Observing shabbat - it's all good
- Shavuot is here, or, oh crap.
- Jewish. Goyish.
- Blue moon, shmoo moon.....
- Happy Whatever
- Re-runs, #3
- Re-runs, almost over
- I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried
- And the winner is......
- Northampton, Massachusetts: Is it good for the Jews?
- Nosh, Schlep, Schluff: Babyiddish
- Tell me about your seder
- Jewish Book Carnival
- High Holiday services for young children
- A Mitzvah for Me
- Christmas for Jews - and no, this is not a post about Chinese Food
- How we celebrated Yom Haatzmaut
- Breastfeeding, breastfeeding, breastfeeding
- No worries
- You can't homeshul if you're never home
- Challah, and a few other things
- Shul-shuling
- This Jewish Life
- What's Jewish about Earth Day?
- Why do I (almost) turn into someone else on Passover - part two
- Why Hebrew? (Or, why I send my child to a Jewish Day School, part 2)
- How far do I go?
- Really?
- Inspire Someone…..Pass It Forward
- The Magic of Intimacy
- A Prayer to Shut Up
- Improving the World Starts with You!
- Have A Memorable Memorial Day!
- Grin and Bear It!
- Philippians 4 Challenge: Day 9
- Philippians 4 Challenge: Day 10
- Philippians 4 Challenge: Day 14
- Wake Up!
- Happy Day!
- If He Needed Together, So Do You
- How Do I Protect the Freedom I'm Now Experiencing?
- Philippians 4 Challenge: Day 18
- Philippians 4 Challenge: Day 19
- Philippians 4 Challenge: Day 21
- It’s For the Best!
- Everything Is A Gift!
- Your Body Is A Temple of Love & Abundance
- Fall Break Discovery
- True Joy
- You Think It's Tough Raising Kids Today? Try Asking First-Century Christians!
- Grasp The Opportunity
- Discover Your Shangri-La
- ANYWAY
- Praying the Psalms
- The Tiny Seed
- Beholding The One In All
- Actualizing Our Fullest Potential
- It Helps to Remember
- Prayer: Anxiety's Antidote
- Thoughts We Live By
- Spiritual and Material Success
- Right Place - Right Time!
- Beholding The One In All
- Having Fun?
- The Unspoken Rule to Happiness and Success
- The Last Cab Ride
- The BP Oil Spill: Business Leadership in a Crisis
- Thoughts to Live By
- When I Think of You
- Opportunity for Growth
- Divine Expression
- The First Kiss
- Negative or Positive?
- You Can Do It Now!
- Darkest Just Before The Dawn
- Meditation Miracle
- The Best Is Yet To Come!
- Proper Enthusiasm Opens Every Door!
- Have Fun!
- The Answer Lies Within
- "What thing about humanity surprises you the most?"
- Discover Who You Are
- Do What's Next!
- Positive Energy, The Drink of Champions!
- Quack Quack, Grace and Galahad Are Here!
- For The Best!
- Are You Awake?
- BE STRONG; FEAR NOT!
- Vision for Success
- Reboot – Start Fresh!
- Lenten Reflections: Trying to Explain the Cross
- Why Do I Believe in the Resurrection?
- Do you have character issues?
- I Need Transformation More Than Inspiration...
- How do you teach a child to make friends?
- What I'm Reading: Articles on Grief, Down syndrome, and Money
- William is Getting Ready Too
- Blessings
- The Tension of Faith
- Amy Julia's most recent First Things articles
- Listen with your ears...
- Santa or Jesus?
- Perfectly Human: The Meaning of Hope by Holly Nelson
- Race, Beauty and Radio City Music Hall
- What My Daughter Thinks About Having Down Syndrome
- Who Decides "Defective"?
- Favorites of 2010: Prayer is Stupid, Unless...
- Favorites of 2010: The Curses of Brokenness, the Blessings of Limitations
- Perfectly Human: Writing Our Lives by Mary Ann Jansen
- Prenatal Screening and Down syndrome: Starting Points
- Listen With Your Ears...
- Christmas Isn't Over Yet: the Feast of the Epiphany
- Inspiration or Exploitation? Down syndrome, football, and a feel-good story
- Learning to Give Thanks
- Praying for Laughter
- Why Do I Take Communion?
- The Buddy Walk: Talking About Down Syndrome
- Advent Reflections: Love or Fear?
- Who Decided What Goes In the Bible?
- The Ethics of Medical Marijuana
- What I'm Reading: Articles on Dying at Home, Working Moms, and Economics
- Is it Harder to Have a Child with Down Syndrome?
- From Marital Bliss to the Bottom and Back Again
- Full Life
- Penny and William Go to School
- Perfectly Human: Happy Birthday, Daughter by Karen Jackson
- Can a Child With Autism be a Gift?
- Are Children with Down Syndrome Angels?
- "They" are a Part of "Us:" A New Perspective on Disability
- Thin Places in the Day to Day
- Questions for Jesus: Are you the One Who Was to Come?
- What I'm Reading: Articles on sex trafficking, abortion providers, and two adorable children from Ethiopia
- Can You Follow Christ Without Being a Christian?
- Remembering That Our Daughter Has Down Syndrome
- The Gift of Grief
- What I'm Going to Be Reading: Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
- What Having Kids Has Taught Me About Myself
- I'm Not Turning Into My Mother...
- Does it make a difference to follow God?
- Grocery Stores and God's Grace
- Us With God: Part Three
- The Beauty of Flabby Arms...
- Updates
- Ellen Painter Dollar's Response: Embracing the Cure
- Go Yankees!
- Life Without God: Part Two
- Proud of You
- The Humility of God
- The Way Out of Grief
- Is TV any Good?
- God WIth Us: Part Four
- The Reality of Hope
- The Sweetness of God: Thoughts on Graduation, Book Deals, and Answered Prayer
- Diagnosing Down Syndrome
- What I'm Reading: Books and Summer Reading Lists
- What Makes a Good Parent?
- Forgetting Yourself, Finding Yourself
- Yoga and Christianity: What's the Deal?
- If I Accidentally Say the Word "Retarded"...
- Don't Grab!
- What I'm Reading: Take This Bread
- Prayer Is Stupid, Unless...
- Life Can Give You Strength
- Order Off of God’s Menu
- Your Most Magnificent Gift!
- Your Unique Beauty
- Now Is All You Have!
- Being Present & Engaged To Your Brilliance!
- Have Fun, Be Positive, Heal & Inspire
- A Prayer for Times of Trial
- A Beginner's Guide to Walking in the Spirit
- A Prayer for a Bomb-shelter
- All In Good Time, The Ebbs & Flow of Life.
- Winter Solstice
- Step Out With Faith
- There’s Hope – Keep Shining Your Light
- I Believe
- My 5 y.o. daughter on origins of life
- Roger Ebert, speechless and chatty
- Straight Talk on Gay Marriage
- The Power of Negative Thinking
- We Forgot that Borrowers Have to Be Able to Repay
- Colson, Claiborne, Boyd - Three visions of evangelical politics
- So You Think Christians Can't Dance? (still testing 123)
- More grist for the atheists-as-fundamentalists mill
- Rebuilding the Red Sox bandwagon
- If it's happening in Colorado Springs...
- Good questions from Culture Making
- Meditation Aligns the Body, Mind & Spirit
- A Prayer While You Wait
- Empower Yourself to Victory!
- And This Too Shall Pass!
- Do You Have A Positive Mental Attitude?
- TEAMwork – Together Everyone Achieves More
- Keep Looking Up, It's Where Miracles Come From!
- Let Me Be An Instrument of Your Peace
- It's A New Year and A New Life!
- Give Your Presence and Energy
- The Sun Will Shine!
- What a Wonderful World This Could Be!
- Abundance (Fullness)
- The Magic of Kindness
- The Courage To Forgive
- Hebrew Bible, Human Life
- Ghosts, Aliens & the Hebrew Bible
- Darwin's Tree of Death: My Reply to Readers
- Does the Torah Permit Torture?
- Counting the Omer in This Blackberry Age
- When Atheists Dodge
- Fraud, Disgrace & Swindle: A Few Thoughts on Richard Dawkins's "Greatest Show"
- The Mission of the Jews
- Dr. Josef Mengele, Angel of Death and "Devotee of Darwin"
- Letter from a Creationist
- The Hollowness of Conservatism Under Darwinism's Sway
- Robert Novak, RIP: When Jews Leave Judaism
- God's Body? I
- Ibn Ezra on Intelligent Design and the First Commandment
- Genesis and the Scandal of Jewish Indifference
- See "2012" this Weekend!
- Why Are Jews Liberals?
- It Is Rashi Speaking
- Were the Founders Noachides?
- Why Gay Activists like Dan Savage Get Mad When You Point Out the Truth
- On Being Hated: A Note to -- and About -- Readers
- Necromancy and Alzheimer's Among Darwin Faithful
- Peace for Our Time! With Dr. Collins, How Far Is Too Far?
- Where Theistic Evolution Leads
- Abortion & "Worldview-Induced Blindness"
- A "God Gene"? Or Spiritual Heliotropism?
- The Toughest Thing about Judaism
- Jeremiah on Theistic Evolution
- The Scandal of Orthodox Irrelevance
- Should Jews Shun "Messianic Jews"?
- An Agnostic Who "Gets" the Hebrew Bible
- The Hebrew Bible for Kids, and for Adults Who Are Kids
- Supporting Israel on Secular Grounds?
- The Strange Case of Little Green Footballs
- Passover Break
- Remembering Adam & Eve's Son Abel -- on Yom HaShoah?
- William James on Faith, Echoing Exodus
- A Mothers' Conspiracy
- A Jaundiced Eye on Ida
- 4 Ways to Live Each Day With Expectation
- MEGA Communication
- Life
- How to Move The World
- The 3 Dangers of Listening to Bad Advice
- A Birthday Prayer for President Trump
- Meditation for your Health & Wealth
- Prosperity in the Desert
- Praying Paul’s Prayers
- Do All The Good You Can Do Now
- Enjoy the Journey
- What Does It Actually Mean to 'Repent'?
- The Law of Preparation
