Cambridge MA As readers of this blog know my main theme here is or should be interreligious dialogue And while I am not much into current events I do frequently enough write about matters that cross religious boundaries But you will also know if you rsquo ve been reading my entries over the

nbsp Two of my favorite spiritual memoirs are the magnificent works The Sacred Journey and Telling Secrets by Frederick Buechner an ordained Presbyterian minister who since 1967 has lived in and written from Vermont nbsp Buechner 39 s prose is supple his mind fertile and his way of looking a

As a member of the so-called millennial generation myself I rsquo m always interested to hear the thoughts of my contemporaries on issues of faith and culture A new e-journal Millennial offers an online home to Catholic writers in their 20s and 30s to explore a vast array of topics including po

One of the more interesting aspects of the Catholic Church rsquo s involvement in civic life is that it cannot be comfortably placed anywhere along the left-right political spectrum at least in an American context Just days ago I posted about Pope Benedict rsquo s widely-reported comments on same

Okay we all like making lists of New Year rsquo s Resolutions nbsp And most of the time--well much of the time--we have a really hard time keeping them because they rsquo re so difficult nbsp Lose 20 pounds nbsp nbsp Read a new book a month nbsp Never get drunk again nbsp Avoid all soda

Pope Benedict XVI used his important Christmas address to the Roman Curia in part to attack gains made by same-sex marriage advocates around the world especially in the United States in November and to contribute to a debate raging in France From USA Today Gay marriage denies God and devalues hum