Recognizing that it s sometimes easier to focus on what can be improved in the church than to highlight what is working I want to follow my post on the Lost conference with something I experienced at the end of weekend the day after the conference ended A friend I met at Fordham is a lay ecc
In the summer of 2009 after years of dialogue between the US Conference of Catholic Bishops Catholic hospitals typically operated by religious orders and labor unions that represent health care workers the three groups issued a joint document on ldquo Respecting the Just Rights of Workers rd
I spent Friday night and much of Saturday at the Lost conference at Fordham University a conference aimed at understanding better the relationship between the Catholic Church and 20-somethings Read my fellow blogger Michael O Loughlin s commentary here I served as moderator of a session on t
This is part of an occasional series on How To Succeed in College For previous posts click on the author s name above Not long ago and fairly far away one of a leading university rsquo s best students told me that he and his peers got good grades without actually reading the books assigned for
Last month we featured a guest blog post from Jeffery M Abood on the plight of Christians in the Middle East Here we offer a response from Rabbi Eugene Korn Rabbi Korn is director of Israel rsquo s Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation where he directs its Institute for Theol
What role does the church play if any to twenty-something Catholics in the United States This was the question that a group of Catholic thinkers writers pastors lay ministers and other church leaders attempted to answer this weekend at a conference held at Fordham University called Lost Twe