Readers nbsp in the New York area who are interested in the dialogue between faith and reason will appreciate a conference happening this week at Fordham University s Rose Hill campus nbsp The conference includes 120 invited faculty and staff of the twelve East Coast Jesuit colleges and universiti

NCR has been nbsp providing in-depth coverage of the ins and outs of the Apostolic Visitation of women s religious orders which has already begun nbsp Several sisters have already told me nbsp of their congregations meeting with Mother Mary Claire Millea the superior general of the Apostles of

An event like the Iranian elections shows just how myopic American media and news agencies have become With financial conditions requiring most news agencies to abandon the extensive foreign desks they once had our ability to know what is going on let alone to make sense of it is dwindling fast

The Independent books section has a great interview with Malcolm Gladwell he of Blink and The Tipping Point fame in which Gladwell talks at length about any number of subjects including the future of newspaper journalism nbsp Gladwell s latest book Outliers The Story of Success offers clues

Statistics point to dramatic shifts in Christianity and Catholicism a shift from Europe to North and South America nbsp to especially to Africa and nbsp Asia nbsp This was very much reflected in this three day conference at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley Ca co-sponsored by nbsp S

An interesting essay in Slate Magazine discusses a lawsuit that nbsp the reclusive nbsp J D Salinger is bringing against an author attempting to publish what is essentially an unauthorized sequel to Salinger rsquo s famous 1951 novel Catcher in the Rye nbsp Some snippets from the article nbsp