Religion, Apps and New Media

March 6, 2011 By

Last week I mentioned that Eliot Spitzer and CNN had renamed their re-tooled panel show, turning Parker Spitzer, into In the Arena, and I groused that there is already a panel show by that name being aired by the Diocese of Brooklyn, which you can see each spring here. This week we’ll be talking about [...]

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In the Arena vs Oscar Dresses! UPDATED

February 27, 2011 By

I know, I know, the Oscars Red Carpet dresses/runway show begins at 7:00 PM, but if you’re not into that, you might want to consider heading over to www.netny.net to watch this week’s episode of the real (Spitzer-free) “In the Arena” where Jane Hanson, Commonweal’s Grant Gallicho, Msgr. Kieran Harrington and I had a great [...]

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Spitzer-take; In the Arena?

February 25, 2011 By

To the surprise of no one, Kathleen Parker is departing CNN’s Parker/Spitzer; Kathleen Parker, the Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist who co-hosted CNN’s 8 p.m. show, is leaving just five months after the show debuted, the company announced Friday. “I have decided to return to a schedule that will allow me to focus more on my syndicated [...]

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Life of Faith, Power of Prayer

May 14, 2010 By

The life of faith, in truth, is -like Jumpin’ Jack Flash, a g-g-gas; it is a mind-blower. We humans tend to try to put everything, including God, and love and life, into manageable compartments, and we hide in them. We hide inside our frameworks, our structures, our plans, our narratives, our willful and our unintentional [...]

Filed Under: "Remaking" Ourselves, Catholicism, Communion of Saints, Faith Friday, In The Arena, Prayer, The Rosary, video faves

Kagan not an automaton but…UPDATED

May 12, 2010 By

A morning email from a good friend: You predicted Bush would pick Bernard Kerik for Homeland Security (that didn’t work out). You predicted Bush would pick Harriet Miers for the Court (also, ahem, didn’t work out). You predicted Hillary would cry before the New Hampshire primaries in ’08 (things…did not work out for her) and [...]

Filed Under: 'Remaking' America, Elena Kagan, Feminism, Free Speech?, Here and Queer, In The Arena, SCOTUS, The Fourth Estate, The Perpetual Adolescents