It sounds like someone is torturing an animal while Christmas music plays in the background Thus did one of my brothers sum up Bob Dylan s new holiday album Christmas in the Heart And he s got a point Bob sounds more like the guy who stumbles in the back door during midnight mass

Ouch nbsp The new issue of the nbsp Chronicle of Higher Education has a nbsp brutal critique of Google s controversial online library project less because of its oft-criticized intellectual property grab than for its incredibly shabby fact-checking nbsp A quick look at some of the more obvious

The New York Times reported today that Mike Seeger the half-brother of folk legend Pete Seeger and an accomplished folk singer and music historian himself died of blood cancer at the age of 75 A founder of the New Lost City Ramblers and a collector of Southern musical treasures like much of his

The English-language text of Pope Benedict s new encyclical is available on the Vatican website here Jim Keane S J nbsp nbsp nbsp

Going through the stack of letters to America each week can be a profound education.

A conference in New York took up a topic that has been much debated in recent years in arenas ranging from popular culture to papal addresses.

A week before President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet Pope Benedict XVI praise for Obama came from a perhaps unexpected source the former theologian of the papal household under Pope John Paul II nbsp As reported by John R Allen Jr of the National Catholic Reporter Cardinal George Cottier

Please forgive the terrible pun above but here is an interesting story out of Rome just as we are coming to the close of the end of the Pauline Year and the 2 000th anniversary of St Paul s birth Pope Benedict XVI has announced that scientific evidence shows the bones housed in the Basilica of

Another academic heavy hitter spoke at yesterday s afternoon session of the Faith and Reason 2009 A Dialogue at the Heart of Jesuit Education conference at Fordham University Fr Michael Himes of Boston College His courses at BC on Twilight of Belief and Golden Age of Atheism are renowned f

In today s morning session of the Faith and Reason 2009 conference at Fordham University participants were treated to a presentation by noted historian John W O rsquo Malley S J The University Professor at Georgetown University O Malley specializes in the religious culture of early modern Eur