On Sept 16 Fordham University held a conference entitled Learning to Listen Voices of Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church Deb Word a panel speaker and member of Fortunate Families shared her experience of raising her son who is gay Kerry Weber Note This post and video have

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp One of the highlights of my past summer was attending a block-buster exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The Steins Collect One is simply amazed at the vast array of Cesanne s Renoir s Gauguin s Matisse s and Picasso s in the exhibition The Stein

As young people in the US increasingly reject formal religious traditions they are increasingly charting their own course for rituals that once took place inside a house of worship The Washington Post reports on a growing phenomenon of couples choosing friends or family to officiate wedding ceremo

Last-ditch efforts by U S and European diplomats to turn back an appeal for statehood for Palestine at the United Nations are ongoing today But so far they appear to have done little to deter Palestinians from a last-ditch effort of their own an attempt to shock the long moribund Oslo Accords ne

Cambridge MA Readers of my blog not infrequently comment kindly that my reports are interesting and that the issues I raise as I raise them must surely ring true in an academic setting ndash but not in the wider community larger world where more down to earth direct dialogue is needed This

If you have gotten into the habit of scanning the list of ingredients of the processed food you buy at your local supermarket get ready to look for something new Or more to the point mdash not ldquo Corn sugar rdquo may soon be showing up in the fine print along the side or the bottom of your f