On Friday March 30th Cardinal Turkson the president of Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace presented a reflection at the Uniapac Congress in Lyon France on the Vocation of a Business Leader The document grew out of a seminar sponsored by the John A Ryan Institute at the University of S

Can answered prayers be disconcerting nbsp Saturday morning I encountered a minor disaster After taking the 7 23 a m train to the city to attend a NYU Bioethics conference on The Moral Brain I found the subway stop closed for construction To get out of the rain and save time I jumped into a ta

A question I didn t realize was being asked is the subject of a new book by scholar Bart Ehrman In Did Jesus Exist Ehrman lays out the case that an historical Jesus of Nazareth did exist even with a lack of historical documents or artifacts corroborating this Ehrman offered an interview to NPR

I went last week to The California Museum in Sacramento with a passel of Jesuits from the University of San Francisco on a rented bus to see finally an exhibition about American nuns I had heard so much about The exhibition Women and Spirit had been assembled and mounted through the Leaders

The story of the trial crucifixion and death of Jesus of Nazareth which is recited sung and often acted out in churches on Palm Sunday speaks for itself This is one reason why preachers are encouraged keep their homilies short that day Or as the pastor of the local Jesuit church told me ldq

America was one of the many participants in the 2012 Los Angeles Religious Education Congress nbsp For those who haven t experienced Congress it s hard to describe the sheer nbsp magnitude of the event tens of thousands of Catholics both clergy and lay from around the world doing nbsp almost