Thanks to Greg Kandra at Deacon s Bench for alerting us to this great bit of news from the Diocese of Allentown the Vatican has given its formal approval for the canonization process for Walter Ciszek SJ 1904-1984 to begin nbsp Father Ciszek an American-born Jesuit and the author of With Go

Cambridge MA For readers who want more than the written word I was honored to give the Loyola Lecture at Le Moyne College in Syracuse last week on March 14 and it has already been posted at the college website You can find the video here I am introduced by Dr Fred Glennon Chair of the Depar

nbsp I can count on one hand the number of my close friends who attend church regularly even using the most generously Protestant definition of ldquo regularly rdquo The de-churching of my friends includes those from all chapters of my life mdash childhood college and now as a working profes

On Wednesday morning Jan 13 in Tehran a motorcyclist drove alongside a grey Peugot and affixed a magnetic bomb to its exterior The blast killed Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan a scientist deputy director of Iran rsquo s uranium enrichment lab He was the fifth nuclear scientist murdered since 2007 For

From Ciudad Nueva courtesy of Mirada Global The announcement is a surprise but not such a big surprise The FARC will no longer get its funds through kidnapping civilians and it will liberate 10 policemen they rsquo ve been holding since 1998 and 1999 The announcement didn rsquo t come as such a

In his social encyclical Caritas in Veritate Pope Benedict XVI observed The repeated calls issued within the Church s social doctrine beginning with Rerum Novarum 1891 for the promotion of workers associations that can defend their rights must therefore be honoured today even more than in th