Ten years ago I was preparing class in my room at Saint Peter rsquo s College in Jersey City when the phone rang It was my friend Bryan Kelly a recent Fordham grad and member of the swimming team calling from Tokyo where he was studying for an MBA A few weeks before we had met in New York

Cambridge MA I have just returned from four weeks in India I love going to India have done so for nearly 40 years now and still always find Indians to be among the kindest and most gracious people on earth Visiting India is always a joy and it is hard to return to the USA after some weeks t

nbsp nbsp Some twenty-five years ago I wrote an essay entitled After Sainthood which appeared in the book Saints and Virtues edited by John Hawley and Mark Juegensmeyer University of California Press 1987 I contrasted what I termed nbsp archetypical saints the typical exemplars of

There is a letter circulating the web from the Family Research Council to their members and prospective donors that is being condemned by many for its hateful rhetoric indirectly targeted at children and young adults The letter posted in its entirety below uses the It Gets Better Campaign and

Earlier this month the Department of Health and Human Services HHS adopted new standards related to preventive services for women rsquo s health The Catholic reaction to the proposed standards--which are slated to go into effect sometime after the ongoing 60-day comment period--has been mixed O

From Our Sunday Visitor s story on unsettling findings from the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate CARA A new survey conducted by the nbsp Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate nbsp CARA at Georgetown University indicates that more than three in four adult Catholics in the U