Shortly before the holidays, I became smitten with the Christian quartet Point of Grace, whose music I stumbled on almost by accident while driving around Maryland over Thanksgiving. I was punching buttons on the radio, trying to find some decent holiday music, and landed on a station playing their song “Not That Far From Bethlehem.”…

As many of you may have noticed, MCPF Stephen Colbert is finally back on the air. Once again, all is right with the world. And he’s been getting some nice buzz in Washington from, of all places, the Smithsonian: From the AP: Stephen Colbert was denied when he tried to run for president this year…

The sage John Allen last week posted this chin-scratcher, and it’s worth a read: his picks for the 10 most neglected Vatican-related stories of 2007. From NCR: Every society has its shorthand ways of signaling what it considers important. At the level of pop culture, Americans know something registers when David Letterman or Jon Stewart…

In a recent address, a leading American archbishop has offered a word or two of wisdom to those who seek to preach The Word. From CNS: Preaching effectively in U.S. multicultural communities hinges upon believing passionately in God’s word and his universal plan of salvation, Atlanta’s archbishop told U.S. seminarians studying in Rome. “If the…

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