America was one of the many participants in the 2012 Los Angeles Religious Education Congress nbsp For those who haven t experienced Congress it s hard to describe the sheer nbsp magnitude of the event tens of thousands of Catholics both clergy and lay from around the world doing nbsp almost

Cambridge MA I had occasion to preach on the Harvard campus this morning mdash nbsp Thursday in the 5th week of Lent mdash and as is often the case found myself challenged by the Gospel even before I could present it to the congregation Today rsquo s reading is from the second half of chapt

The Rev Robert Barron author and host of the widely successful book and series Catholicism which was reviewed recently in America by Tim Reidy reviews the hit movie The Hunger Games from a very Catholic and very thoughtful point of view nbsp Certainly it s the only review you ll prob

Jonathan Haidt rsquo s The Righteous Mind Pantheon is a book addressed to our national discontent A study in moral psychology it aims to explain why Americans are so polarized over politics and religion Haidt rsquo s explanation ldquo the righteous mind rdquo not only the human capacity to

Take a few minutes to watch Bill O Reilly interview Cardinal Timothy Dolan about the bishops s continuing battle again the Obama administration Cardinal Dolan seems to suggest that secularists in the Obama administration are using the issue of birth control which is used by most Catholics to furt

Pope Benedict returned to Rome this morning after a private meeting last night with an aging mellowing Fidel Castro Oh to have been a fly on that wall He had some parting shots on the Havana tarmac for both Cuban socialismo and the U S economic embargo of its one time surrogate The light o