As the Vatican prepares for the Synod of Bishops on the Family Oct 4 to 25 various individuals and groups are offering input on issues they want the synod to address I asked several U S Catholic pastors and other experts to note issues on which people go to clergy for help Most emphasized famil

Popes since Leo XIII have supported workers' associations.

The Bhagavad Gita in Lent: ascent into blinding darkness, blinding light

On Feb 26 Father Theodore Hesburgh the longest serving president of Notre Dame University one the most influential priests in nbsp the history of the American church passed away at the age of 97 He was known among many other things as an innovator in Catholic higher education nbsp During his

ldquo Drew wait up how are you rdquo The voice shouted to me as I was leaving a burial at Notre Dame rsquo s Holy Cross cemetery The burial was for Fr Bill Lewers C S C a former provincial of the Congregation of Holy Cross and my predecessor once-removed as director of the bishops rsquo c

Leonard Nimoy has died at 83 nbsp In a lovely convocation address nbsp h t nbsp Catholic Dems to Boston University in 2012 he described his connection to Jesuit learning Around this time I had a welcome bit of affirmation I was seen in a play by a Jesuit priest who ran the theatre program at Bo