I once thought I might have to join or start a Penny Pinchers Anonymous group Frugality seemed old-fashioned something left over from having parents who remembered the Great Depression It seemed almost like a psychological problem or perhaps a bad habit to some of my grad school friends But I

The bad news continues to leak out of the Boston archdiocese The archdiocese was again in the headlines today with a report that Boston may have to confront more shutdowns of parish and or church facilities after a nbsp radical reshuffling nbsp that would unite Boston s 291 parishes into 80 to 12

Here s a confession I was biased when I saw Terrence Malick rsquo s astonishing new film ldquo The Tree of Life rdquo nbsp Very biased nbsp For one thing I am an enormous fan of I rsquo ll use the word since it fits the director rsquo s oeuvre nbsp One of the first things I read about M

Caritas Secretary General Lesley-Anne Knight the first woman to hold that position bid farewell May 27 to the Caritas community at its general assembly in Rome Knight had just finished to four-year term and was expected to be reappointed but her candidacy for the position was waved off by the cu

Here is Sister Mary Ann Walsh director of media relations for the USCCB in Huffpo about the Woodstock explanation of the clergy sex abuse crisis nbsp The gray-haired hippies who are now retiring from proper jobs in areas such as education law medicine and public service agree They reflec

Cambridge MA I am back in Cambridge ndash 30 degrees cooler than Chicago ndash and want to fulfill yesterday s promise to write a few words about the reason for my week in Hyde Park I was participating in a seminar on theologies of religious pluralism and comparative theology sponsored by the