Chennai India mdash As you may recall I am on sabbatical this year and from early January until the end of March I am traveling in India doing some writing visiting familiar places such as Chennai where I have lived many times and Kolkata Calcutta where I rsquo ve visited three times be

A prospective reader of this blog noting its title might assume that it might be about contemplation the meditative techniques and practices which help us see ourselves and the world differently In fact it is about my reactions to an extraordinary and large the largest exhibit ever held in San

There was a certain amount of understandable pride that I experienced when I saw a well-known ministry of my Franciscan province featured in the eminent pages of the most-recent issue of The New Yorker January 20 2014 The brief profile of the ministry and its director appeared in the front ldqu

The Associated Press is reporting tonight that a document it has obtained indicates that nbsp Pope Benedict XVI defrocked nearly 400 priests over just two years for sexually molesting children According to the report the statistics for 2011 and 2012 quot show a dramatic increase over the 171 priest

Antoinette Tuff met an armed intruder with love and models for us the realistic force of nonviolence.

This year I was blessed with the opportunity to spend the Christmas holidays in the Holy Land something I have always hoped to do thanks to my one year of studies in Cairo Yet going from Egypt to the Kingdom of David struck me as a little odd Didn rsquo t the Holy Family escape from Herod in Be