I hope all religious institutions and organizations will consider their relationship to the Occupy movement and take this occasion of a global social movement to ask themselves how their traditions of spirituality relate to their actions for justice and their works of mercy More specifically I as

Forbes has named its 2011 world s most powerful people Number 7 goes to Pope Benedict XVI Not too shabby but a slight comedown from 2010 when he was up two spots at 5 Ranked at number one was Barack Obama followed by Russian Prime Minister Vladamir Putin The number three spot went to Chinese

Rare is the film review that makes you want to rush out to see a film immediately but nbsp John P McCarthy s review in our online Culture section of Werner Herzog s searing new film about the death penalty had that effect on me nbsp I m a great fan of Herzog s eccentric but effective filmmaki

I recently spent ten days in Belgium and the Netherlands visiting Amsterdam Antwerp Louvain Leuven and Bruges My purpose for being there was an academic conference in Louvain Each of the cities I visited have lovely Beguine centers and or medieval Beguine churches which I purposefully sought

If our recent review of the film The Mighty Macs sparked your interest in the real-life individuals who helped catapult the basketball team of a small Catholic women s college into the national spotlight you may want to head over to Fordham University for the 7th Annual Rita Cassella Jones Lect

Tomorrow night Tues Nov 8 the estimable PBS series Frontline will air a riveting documentary on the state of affairs in Syria Ramita Navai a Frontline reporter goes underground to report on the rebel insurgents in that country Our associate editor Raymond A Schroth SJ watched an ad