I nbsp am going to have to nominate Kim Daniels for 2013 ldquo thankless task rdquo award finalist As the new spokesperson for not the U S bishops rsquo conference nor for Cardinal Timothy Dolan in his capacity as archbishop of New York but for the office of the president of the U S C C B
When I saw recently the excellent movie quot Disconnect quot about the destructive potentials in internet use I was led to reflect or notice the following items Item 1 In late February of this year I spent four days in Northern Minnesota giving some lectures at Saint John 39 s University
Stacie Beck rsquo s article ldquo Just Economics rdquo May 6 questions what the author sees as logical and factual inconsistencies within the ldquo social justice agenda rdquo Beck claims that the expression of Catholic social teachings into which our children are being catechized is illogica
Fifty years ago John Courtney Murray S J a former editor at America and a peritus at Vatican II looked at John XXII 39 s encylical on war and peace It is interesting to note that Murray nbsp the foremost expert on religious liberty who would help shape the council 39 s groundbreaking docume
In the epilogue of his latest book, "The Pope's Last Crusade: How an American Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XI's Campaign to Stop Hitler," Peter Eisner offers an interesting insight on the men who held the seat of Peter during the 20th century.
Every once in a while there rsquo s a break in the bad news about the church The good news for several weeks has been the election of Cardinal Bergoglio of Argentina as pope His is a kind and fresh face of an elderly man with a heart and his symbolic gestures suggest that this new face may repres