The editors raise a number of questions regarding the Vatican s censure of the Leadership Council of Women Religious In the wake of the Vatican rsquo s doctrinal assessment of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious with many others we offer our support to the sisters Ten years after the e

In case you missed it Thomas J Reese SJ nbsp America s former editor in chief and a senior fellow at the Woodstock Institute in Georgetown who by the way has nbsp a Ph D in political science reminds Stephen Colbert and Paul Ryan that Jesus did ask us to care for the poor that the budget

For well over a century May 1st has been celebrated around worldwide as labor rsquo s holiday In 1955 Pius XII established May 1st as the Feast of St Joseph the Worker ldquo The Gospel specifies the kind of work Joseph did in order to support his family he was a carpenter rdquo explained John

I was hesitant to post this interview because the grenade throwers who tend to comment on this blog will have plenty of nbsp ammunition but Dan Savage rsquo s sincerity in his essay about the death of his mother and his relationship with the Catholic Church is worth sharing For those who don rsqu

I once heard Pope John Paul II spiritedly identify himself as the ldquo feminist Pope rdquo He was addressing our group who were participating in a Vatican conference devoted to women rsquo s health nbsp Now many years later a Vatican CDF admonition arrives warning against ldquo radical femini

From Mirada Global an essay from Colombia on the need for a new ethical framework for the 21st century Nowadays we live according to the rules of a consumerist neo-liberal system which dominates the techno-scientific society with its false assertion that our planets possesses both biotic and a