The novelist Mary Gordon who has a new book out commented a number of years ago on a disturbing theme in novels by the ldquo great American writers rdquo of the last century mdash Updike Roth Bellow Mailer etc mdash noting that with some exceptions the theme of the American novel was a youn

Several years ago I rsquo ll keep this vague I was at a meeting of a group of young Jesuits I rsquo ll keep that vague too who were called upon by their nbsp superiors again vague nbsp to do some important discernment nbsp The question that was put before us was What might be some new ven

John Allen reports over at National Catholic Reporter that a Portuguese Cardinal purportedly stated that he sees no fundamental theological obstacle rdquo to the ordination of women in the Catholic Church Cardinal Jos eacute da Cruz Policarpo told a legal publication that tradition may preclude

The Washington Theological Union is throwing in the towel In an announcement released yesterday WTU reported that it does not have the financial resources to be able to continue offering its academic services to the Church and the community beyond the 2012 - 2013 academic year hat-tip to Heidi

Three years ago I stood about two feet away from Senator Barack Obama as he worked his way through the crowd he had just addressed in the gym at St Peter rsquo s College at the height of the New Jersey primary The rally had started at least an hour late because when the candidate arrived he d

The Boston Globe continues its coverage of the fallout from the canceled All Are Welcome Mass at a parish in the city The latest article talks to Catholics who are gay and lesbian and who choose to remain in the church rather than leave for greener pastures in other denominations nbsp The arti