The Abuse Crisis, Prodigal Sons � and the Missing Mother

Author: Francis X. Clooney, S.J.;

Cambridge, MA. Saturday, March 13. As you know, I generally leave to others the hottest issues of the day, preferring to offer for your reflections comments on less noticed topics that captivate me at least, most recently the relevance of the medieval Hindu poet saints Antal and Tirumalisai Piran to Catholic piety and spiritual theology. But as you also know, I preach most Sundays, and keep more or less current on what is going on in the Church and world. So I was struck, on this very rainy Saturday afternoon, by a

Andrew Sullivan: Being Gay and Catholic

Author: James Martin, S.J.;

Since so many of our blogposts lately have, thanks to recent events, dealt with homosexuality, same-sex marriage and so on, here's a gay Catholic speaking about what it means to be one. Andrew Sullivan, author, former editor of The New Republic and blogger on "The Daily Dish," at Princeton University last week speaking on "The Politics of Homosexuality."

LA Congress Webified

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As Tom Beaudoin mentioned in his post below, the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress begins this week, and will attract over 40,000 Catholics to the Anaheim Convention Center for Masses, worksho

Kerry Weber on "The Art of the Steal"

Author: James Martin, S.J.;

As a native (and in my heart current) Philadelphian, I am totally biased about the new film that Kerry Weber has reviewed, "The Art of the Steal," about the highly controversial move of the little-known-but-now-much-more-well-known Barnes Foundation, a small museum in Merion, P

Identity crisis

Author: Kevin Clarke;

I have found myself marveling this week at the small parade of gay-outings among U.S. politicians. Like previous media outings of closeted politicians, these expose men who have often built their reputations and careers on their passion for family values and their antipathy to anything that smacks of the gay tolerance agenda. U.S. media has long delighted in the travails of powerful but troubled men, who have despite their obvious conflicts somehow managed to acquire U.S. political leadership roles, and now are essentially working through their own problems with sexual identity in sometimes professionally disastrous public spectacles.

As a heterosexual Catholic, I have grown into

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The Abuse Crisis, Prodigal Sons � and the Missing Mother

Andrew Sullivan: Being Gay and Catholic

LA Congress Webified

Kerry Weber on "The Art of the Steal"

Identity crisis