Pune India mdash I am a few days short of the time when I am planning to continue my series on my trip to India by writing a blog on my time here in Pune one of the intellectual centers of India But since I have been blessed with excellent internet connections here I have been able to browse

Laurie Ziliak rsquo s article for America ldquo Worship at Willow Creek rdquo identifies the impressive ways that Willow Creek Community Church has innovated through technology and planning a model of worship that the Catholic Church can learn from I heartily agree with her generous way of se

Too little too late nbsp In an effort to quot define conclusively the posture of the congregation with respect to the behavior of Fr Marcial Maciel and his role as founder quot the nbsp Legion of Christ issued an apology today to Maciel 39 s legion of victims Many have argued that the order

On the Feast of the Franciscan Martyrs of Japan, Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M., remembers the faithful work and sacrifice of St. Paul Miki and his Companions.

A report highly critical nbsp of the Holy See 39 s response to the global crisis of clerical sexual abuse from the nbsp United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child nbsp was perhaps not a complete surprise giving the tone of the interrogation Vatican officials were treated to during their t

Five years ago I wrote a Lenten meditation quot Jesus the Prisoner quot America March 30-April 6 2009 I was interested in the theme because I was then reading a book written by Michael Kennedy S J Jesus the Risen Prisoner An Invitation to Freedom I was taken by how rarely we ever hear o