nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp It was my honor to interview Sister Helen Prejean during her recent visit to Bakersfield for two talks that took place May 4-5 Sister Helen is well known as the ldquo Dead Man Walking rdquo nun the face of the global movement to

A couple months ago I wrote about immigration and the presidential contest at the website BustedHalo com where I touched on the DREAM Act The US Conference of Catholic Bishops went on record in favor of the DREAM Act with Los Angeles rsquo s Archbishop Jose Gomez writing The United States is a g

Links fixed nbsp Here are two profiles both sympathetic of two nbsp church leaders nbsp whose approach to dialogue and authority will be key factors in the ongoing Vatican review of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious nbsp The first is a short piece in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

nbsp I recently saw the excellent documentary film Bully which I found both quite absorbing and equally disturbing It documents several victims of bullying in mostly rural school settings I agreed with several of the leading film critics I checked out on the web site Rotten Tomatoes that the

I live in what is one of the more wealthy neighborhoods in the world By wealth I don rsquo t necessarily mean the income of the rich persons who live in the all the local apartment houses which block out our sky but the New York institutions clustered here that pull together a steady traffic of th

nbsp Catholics today are confronting horrible revelations of clerical abuse Will this ongoing scandal change our church Yes undoubedly this encounter with dreadful home truths is already changing us The sickening revulsion we have felt toward accounts of distant concentration camps torture ch