nbsp I have some very complicated feelings about Lance Armstrong 39 s upcoming confession and I presume apology on Oprah Winfrey 39 s show As a Jesuit a priest a Catholic and a Christian I believe that everyone deserves the opportunity for forgiveness nbsp Our faith is founded on a forgivi

nbsp I am often asked by people to help them understand and or enter into Ignatian spirituality It would be a mistake for most people to go directly to a copy of The Spiritual Exercises to try to simply read them As they exist the Exercises essentially are the retreat notes Ignatius himself took

Since the Newtown tragedy atheists have written essays defending their responses to such tragedies They want to show that atheists too can console those who mourn without resorting to faith in God or a future life Susan Jacoby has entered the lists with a recent New York Times article 1 6 13 ent

The New York Times reports on a seemingly counterintuitive theater collaboration in Boston where a one-man play about clergy sexual abuse is being staged at the Paulist Center in the heart of the city nbsp ldquo Conversations With My Molester A Journey of Faith rdquo chronicles the abuse of Mi

nbsp The Vatican rsquo s portraitist and official court painter is the Russian born Orthodox believer Natalia Tsarkova who has painted Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI among others She gave a brief video interview to the BBC in which we see her pet owl and is profiled in an article from AFP

Today markes the third anniversary of the 7 0 earthquake which devastated Haiti in 2010 leaving as many as 250 000 dead and destroying much of the capital Port-au-Prince 39 s government and church institutions My report on Haiti 39 s recovery can be found here More reports will be posted next we