nbsp Catholics today are confronting horrible revelations of clerical abuse Will this ongoing scandal change our church Yes undoubedly this encounter with dreadful home truths is already changing us The sickening revulsion we have felt toward accounts of distant concentration camps torture ch

Cambridge MA I recently was asked to offer a closing prayer at a parish event where the speaker was Professor Paul F Knitter a distinguished Catholic theologian and the Tillich Professor of Theology World Religions and Culture at Union Theological Seminary in New York Paul had given a fine pre

I ve watched this video a few times today and couldn t resist sharing with you nbsp Here is Archbishop Loris Capovilla the secretary for Pope John XIII reminiscing about his old friend and boss nbsp So much wisdom here nbsp Why don t we also get together to talk nbsp

This morning rsquo s New York Times explores the developing feud among family members operating the Trinity Broadcasting Network an nbsp Evangelical television powerhouse that also operates the Holy Land Experience theme park in Orlando Florida According to the article the granddaughter of the

Fr Jim Martin pays tribute to the legacy of women religious since Vatican II nbsp

On Mayday I was in the parks and streets of Manhattan for M1GS the May 1st General Strike a daylong gathering called by a coalition of dozens of labor organizations Like many I was there under many motivations as a participant in Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Faith NYC as a member of the lab