Laurie Ziliak rsquo s article for America ldquo Worship at Willow Creek rdquo identifies the impressive ways that Willow Creek Community Church has innovated through technology and planning a model of worship that the Catholic Church can learn from I heartily agree with her generous way of se

Too little too late nbsp In an effort to quot define conclusively the posture of the congregation with respect to the behavior of Fr Marcial Maciel and his role as founder quot the nbsp Legion of Christ issued an apology today to Maciel 39 s legion of victims Many have argued that the order

A report highly critical nbsp of the Holy See 39 s response to the global crisis of clerical sexual abuse from the nbsp United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child nbsp was perhaps not a complete surprise giving the tone of the interrogation Vatican officials were treated to during their t

Five years ago I wrote a Lenten meditation quot Jesus the Prisoner quot America March 30-April 6 2009 I was interested in the theme because I was then reading a book written by Michael Kennedy S J Jesus the Risen Prisoner An Invitation to Freedom I was taken by how rarely we ever hear o

nbsp Pune India At the end of my first report on my 10-week trip to India I mentioned that I was on my way to Kolkata Calcutta and although I was there for only a brief four days it was a most interesting visit Kolkata as you will know was the capital of the British Raj in its early ye

The new this-should-be-talked-about book is a big one mdash 1 250 pages of 6 million words mdash yet it rsquo s a quick read All 6 million words are the same one word only printed 6 million times The author Phil Chernofsky tells the New York Times nbsp that each word mdash Jew mdash symboliz