How odd At the end of a day in which the Guardian newspaper ran a piece by me praising Michael Moore s Catholicism I find myself having to apologize to the documentary-maker for questioning his faith In my post here yesterday I ended by posing a question about something that has been nagging me

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I cannot tell you how much I have enjoyed paging through this amazing new book written by two deacons of the LA archdiocese called Ascend nbsp Essentially it s an introduction to the Catholic faith for young adults and full disclosure I blurbed it but only because I loved it it s written in

Cambridge MA In the last entry in this blog Mr Murali Manohar offered some very thoughtful and perceptive reflections on interreligious learning definitely worth your reading So please read his remarks before proceeding with this entry Here I take up just a few of his major points First one

US Catholic is launching a survery nbsp of both women religious and other Catholics about the apostolic visitation of women religious The editors of nbsp the magazine wrote to us Since there have been more questions than answers surrounding the visitation we decided to ask Catholics what they tho