As Daniel P Horan O F M noted earlier today Pope Francis has decided not to live in the Apostolic Palace but to remain at the Casa Santa Marta the Vatican Guest House where he stayed during the conclave and has remained since his election ldquo He is experimenting with this type of living ar

The summer I was ordained I spent a month as a substitute pastor in Kotzebue an Eskimo village in the Alaskan Arctic One of the courtesies I received from the villagers was a fifty cent admission for me and my guests to the folk dances they did for visiting tourists In return I was prompted to b

Would a little healthy hysteria be welcome now as the latest report from the CDC indicates again another possible increase in autism in America The latest CDC survey of parent-reported ASD diagnoses shows an increase from 1 in 86 children aged 6 to 17 reported in 2007 to 1 in 50 in 2011 In this

Cambridge MA Last week and in the week before I introduced the first two segments of the ldquo eight limbs rdquo astanga of yoga such as emphasize respectively moral and bodily discipline Now I take up the sixth and seventh of these limbs those dealing most directly with meditation holdin

Between last Thursday and today over 100 emails and phone calls from friends and others plus long hours scouring the press and the Internet have taught me several things about the Catholic church 1 The public mdash including the ex-Catholic public who have slammed the door leaving mdash still

Today the Catholic Book Club is discussing The Patriarch David Nasaw 39 s biography of Joseph P Kennedy In order to facilitate discussion I offer some questions here for discussion I welcome everyone to contribute answers to these questions your own questions or any reactions you have to the