Thinking I had to steel myself for the changes looming for the first Sunday of Advent was God rsquo s joke on me because the priest who presided over the Saturday evening Mass I just attended for the feast of Christ the King decided to go with the new translation one week early Glossy brochures in

This morning I opened the New York Times like I do every Saturday morning and turned immediately to the Op-Ed page to learn how I should think for the day kidding of course nbsp First I read the column by regular contributor Gail Collins entitled ldquo Republican Financial Plans rdquo in wh

This is a quotation from the Rev Phillip Lawson veteran civil rights activist in a video produced by the Council of Elders a collection of surviving activists from the Civil Rights Movement including Sr Joan Chittister Here is a video of some of the Council of Elders endorsing the Occupy mo

The American Academy of Religion is holding its annual meeting in San Francisco this year drawing academic theologians and religious scholars from over 1 000 colleges universities seminaries and other schools in every corner of the United States and in recent years other nations for several

The American Academy of Religion is holding its annual meeting in San Francisco this year drawing academic theologians and religious scholars from over 1 000 colleges universities seminaries and other schools in every corner of the United States and in recent years other nations for several

While the OWS movement celebrated its second month anniversary with marches all over the country most notably in Manhattan the U S Census Bureau was continuing its march through American poverty statistics The census quietly released another selection of depressing data related to childhood pove