Since June 2002 in the printed pages of America magazine and here on its blog such as more recently nbsp here and here I have tried to make occasional theological sense of the unfolding sexual managerial abuse crisis in the U S Catholic Church As someone who works in the area of practical the

A very nice essay from Jim Keane S J over at The Jesuit Post Jim is studying theology in California and served at America as an associate editor If you rsquo ve been a student in a Catholic school over the past half-century and you rsquo ve spent any time studying the documents of Vatican II i

The famous Kony 2012 Youtube video brought wide attention to Joseph Kony and the abuses perpetrated by his Lord s Resistance Army in central Africa Here is another video about conflict in the region this one showing how religious leaders and laypeople in Uganda have sought to build peace through

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious issued a short response to yesterday s nbsp CDF Doctrinal Assessment The presidency of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious was stunned by the conclusions of the doctrinal assessment of LCWR by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Beca

The U S Bishops had a busy day In addition to the announcement regarding the CDF s plan for the reform of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and encouraging the United States to end the embargo and normalize relations with Cuba the bishops endured a return scolding from House Speaker Jo

On the same day that the U S C C B and the C D F brought the hammer down on U S women religious because of their controversial taste in conference speakers radical feminism and alleged lack of sufficient enthusiasm for the church s teaching on abortion women s ordination and homosexuality on