While participating in the Occupy Wall Street protests in lower Manhattan I have begun to wonder what would happen if Catholics took this model and applied it to their passion for and grievances with their own church nbsp Imagine a group of Catholics whose deep care for the future of their chur

For those who are following the protests in New York City and now around the USA I have written a brief update with a few pictures nbsp here TB

I stumbled upon this Washington Post series of photos of a Colorado family being evicted H T to Greg Kandra s The Deacon s Bench and have not been able to stop thinking about this family and what they are going through a tragedy being replicated at thousands of sites around the country I don t k

I have been both astonished and moved by the tremendous outpouring of emotion over the death of Steve Jobs at age 56 nbsp Mr Jobs as is known by anyone whose fingers ever touched a computer or held an iPhone was a dazzlingly talented innovator who as President Obama noted will likely rank am

Just posted to our Web site a call for the canonication of Pope John Paul I nbsp On the Third Sunday of Easter Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed John Paul II a blessed a milestone in the late pope rsquo s journey to sainthood The speed at which Karol Wojtyla rsquo s cause for canonization has progr

Cambridge MA As promised this is a brief follow-up on the visit of the Sultan of Sokoto the spiritual leader of some 80 000 000 Muslims in Nigeria and the surrounding area to Harvard on October 2-3 Harvard sees many many dignitaries visit campus and so the arrangements seemed rather smooth