Cambridge MA I tell my students that one way to figure out what one thinks is to start writing and to a large extent that is my experience with my short and sporadic study of the 3rd Book of Nephi in the Book of Mormon these past weeks My hope is to convince some readers of this blog at least th

Just posted to our Web site Robert J Nogosek C S C recalls the early days of Vatican II and a crucial moment that set the tone for the rest of the Council For the most part the large American hierarchy had arrived out of duty and with no agenda of their own Our bishops were used to confo

The folks at Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life have created an interactive graphic that is easy to parse and fun to use that allows unrepentant political geeks to track candidate Obama and Romney s weekly standing in specific Christian denominations broken down even to frequency of worship atte

Since ldquo redistribution rdquo is in the news these days I thought it might be valuable to offer some passages from Benedict XVI rsquo s 2009 encyclical Caritas in Veritate on the theme nbsp He uses the term 8 times nbsp The basic concept of redistribution is accepted as moral obligation to

Cambridge MA I was pleased to receive a copy the other day of a new book by Roger Haight our esteemed and ever-creative fellow Jesuit educator theologian and in recent years insightful writer in the field of spirituality Christian Spirituality for Seekers Reflections on the Spiritual Exerci

Graham Greene had a yen for dangerous places and his search for evidence of the rotten spot of the human heart took him to Vietnam Africa and in 1939 to Mexico The persecution of the church had cooled but he quickly learned to hate the place largely because of the hate he saw there He recall