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Archbishop Donald Wuerl:  Charity and Freedom of Conscience
One Nation: Religion & Politics

Archbishop Donald Wuerl: Charity and Freedom of Conscience

Roman Catholic Archbishop Donald Wuerl discusses the DC City Council’s December 1 vote on gay marriage and how that may affect his church’s social service and charity work.

Posted: Nov 30th, 2009  Comments: 7   Views: 181   
(2 votes)
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November 27, 2009: U.S. Hunger on the Rise

November 27, 2009: U.S. Hunger on the Rise

Watch Candy Hill, senior vice president of Catholic Charities USA, discuss the growing problem of hunger in America.

Posted: Nov 25th, 2009  Comments: 0   Views: 247   
(3 votes)
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November 20, 2009: Flannery O’Connor

November 20, 2009: Flannery O’Connor

Some have called Flannery O'Connor our only great Christian writer, a Catholic from the Deep South who said her subject was “the action of grace in territory held largely by the devil.”

Posted: Nov 20th, 2009  Comments: 3   Views: 284   
(3 votes)
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November 20, 2009: Flannery O’Connor Redux

November 20, 2009: Flannery O’Connor Redux

Forty-five years after her death, how do Flannery O'Connor's views about the South, race, violence, Catholicism, and Christian realism hold up?

Posted: Nov 20th, 2009  Comments: 2   Views: 259   
(3 votes)
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November 20, 2009: Ralph Wood Extended Interview

November 20, 2009: Ralph Wood Extended Interview

"For Flannery O'Connor, race was indeed the curse of the South in the sense that it was the single most important test which we as white Christians failed."

Posted: Nov 20th, 2009  Comments: 2   Views: 269   
(2 votes)
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November 20, 2009: Father Thomas Joseph White Extended Interview

November 20, 2009: Father Thomas Joseph White Extended Interview

Reading Flannery O'Connor "was the first time I had read a Christian thinker or writer who I thought was impressive intellectually and challenging."

Posted: Nov 20th, 2009  Comments: 1   Views: 173   
(7 votes)
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November 13, 2009: Jeni Stepanek on Faith and Grief

November 13, 2009: Jeni Stepanek on Faith and Grief

In a new book about inspirational poet Mattie Stepanek, who died in 2004, his mother Jeni writes about his short life and lasting legacy.

Posted: Nov 13th, 2009  Comments: 4   Views: 234   
(10 votes)
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November 13, 2009: Jeni Stepanek Extended Interview

November 13, 2009: Jeni Stepanek Extended Interview

Read and watch more of Kim Lawton's interview with Jeni Stepanek, who says her son, best-selling poet and speaker Mattie Stepanek, had "a universal message--give and you shall receive."

Posted: Nov 13th, 2009  Comments: 4   Views: 205   
(7 votes)
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October 30, 2009: The Monastic Life

October 30, 2009: The Monastic Life

There will always be a purpose to monastic life, say the sisters of Mount St. Scholastica, as long as there is a need in the world for silence, prayer, simplicity, and balance.

Posted: Oct 30th, 2009  Comments: 18   Views: 494   
(26 votes)
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October 23, 2009: New Vatican Policy on Anglicans

October 23, 2009: New Vatican Policy on Anglicans

Watch National Catholic Reporter senior correspondent John L. Allen Jr. and Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly managing editor Kim Lawton discuss the Roman Catholic Church's plan to absorb unhappy Anglicans wishing to become Catholics.

Posted: Oct 23rd, 2009  Comments: 8   Views: 421   
(1 votes)
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