Our editor Drew Christiansen S J submitted this letter to the editor to the New York Times in response to Ross Douthat s recent column Can Liberal Christianity Be Saved Ross Douthat attributes the loss of adherence in western churches to progressive theology In particular he assigns the

Melbourne Victoria Australia I rsquo ve been here in southern Australia for two and a half weeks already This is the southern hemisphere it is winter though the temperature is in the high lsquo 50s each day it is new to see different stars in the night sky and the sun moving across the nort

When I saw this front-page nbsp headline nbsp in The New York Times this morning I groaned at least inwardly In Graying Priesthood New York s Grayest Keeps Faith in Bronx nbsp I expected another mournful article like For New York Archdiocese s One New Priest a Lonely Distinction a well-r

This morning Sister Pat Farrell OSF president of the Leadership Conference for Women Religious appeared on National Public Radio s Fresh Air with Terry Gross nbsp The full audio will be posted later in the day but some excerpts of this wide-ranging interview have already been posted on the

Last month I listened to an interview on American Public Media rsquo s The Story with Brian Nelson a convicted murderer who had spent 12 years in solitary confinement in a prison in Illinois I could think of no better word to describe such a punishment than torture Listen to that interview here

A leading scholar in the history of Christianity predicts that a widening chasm between the laity and leaders of the Catholic Church will lead to schism in the not too distant future Diarmaid MacCulloch a professor at Oxford said that while the future of the Christian faith as a whole is bright