It s a beautiful story says Jon Krakauer of the harrowing and inspiring experiences that led to Greg Mortenson s best-selling Three Cups of Tea and it s a lie Oh boy What s this Following the 60 Minutes segment on Sunday that called into question many of the details of Mortenson s book

An excellent article maybe the best short treament I ve read yet on the holiness of John Paul II soon to be beatified nbsp It s by John Thavis Catholic New Service s veteran Vatican correspondent and stresses his personal holiness that is his personal spiritual life and relationship to God

Cardinal Donald Wuerl archbishop of Washington DC and chairman of the USCCB s Committee on Doctrine issued today a further nbsp explanation nbsp for the bishops critique of Sister Elizabeth Johnson s book Quest for the Living God and responded in particular to a statement nbsp published nbsp b

Mother Teresa is quoted as saying God doesn t look at how much we do but with how much love we do it nbsp If you want to spend a couple hours getting to know someone whose life and work is permeated with a true and palpable sense of joy go see the documentary Bill Cunningham New York From

Anyone else notice that the late David Foster Wallace s much-talked about but not fully finished novel The Pale King features a Jesuit accounting teacher I haven t read the book but it seems like a surprising character choice Is there anything to this or was Wallace just being clever mdash try

ldquo The Silence rdquo a Frontline investigation of church abuse in Alaska airs on PBS on Tuesday April 19 at 9 p m The tiny white plane banks scouting out the cluster of shack-like homes below spread out on a field of snow then lands in what is a God-forsaken stretch of Alaska 200 miles s