Sister Joan D Chittister O S B is a Benedictine nun speaker and writer She is a member of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie Penn where she has served as prioress Focusing on feminist spirituality and social issues her web column ldquo From Where I Stand rdquo appears weekly in the National
The Vatican has published the names of the 253 persons who will participate at the Synod of Bishops on the Family October 5-19 Among them are cardinals bishops priests men and women religious 14 married couples and representatives of the other Christian churches Since this is an Extraordinary
In a policy shift with enormous implications the state of California rsquo s Department of Managed Health Care has ruled that Anthem Blue Cross and Kaiser Permanente cannot offer Catholic institutions health insurance plans that ask members to pay their own premiums for abortion procedures The mov
Cardinal Dolan is getting heat He is grand marshal of the 2015 St Patrick rsquo s Day parade in New York and says he has no problem with the decision of the parade committee to allow gays and lesbians to march as a group in the oldest parade honoring St Patrick in America This is not a religious
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Sean Brady the Primate of All Ireland less than a month after he turned 75 the official age of retirement for a bishop The Vatican gave no reason for the pope rsquo s decision but informed sources say it is directly linked to the cardinal rsq