From Mensaje via Mirada Global a look at the crises facing the church from a Latin American perspective The Church is facing a crisis Pope Benedict XVI has said it in relation to the European Church Our own bishops in turn are concerned with Latin American Catholicism We are deeply worried

Grief not shared or acknowledged by others can be the hardest to bear Christopher Pramuk s A Hidden Sorrow Praying through Reproductive Loss brings to the Christian Community s awareness the piercing sadness of stillbirth or of infants who day shortly after being born Although the support of Go

Today s New York Times includes a full-page ad from Bill Donohue president of the Catholic League Donohue addresses the ongoing clergy sex abuse scandal and blames gay men and a hostile media for distorting the truth and attacking the church The full text of the ad a letter from Donohue entitle

Cambridge MA I am just returned from Seoul South Korea where I spend the last 9 days I was there for the Second East-West Theological Forum hosted at Ewha Women s University This forum is intended to bring together Western and Korean theologians as colleagues for extended theological conversa

My husband and I recently attended the Bat Mitzvah of a dear friend rsquo s daughter Our daughters are all adults but our friend from college days married a younger woman and so his oldest child is just becoming a teenager His lovely wife is Jewish which explains why a friend from a Catholic un

The other day food service workers at the nation rsquo s oldest Catholic University announced that after a lengthy campaign their union UNITEHERE had been recognized by their employer The whole story has been retold elsewhere ndash but for those familiar with union organizing the relative civi