A new CARA study reveals that the total weekly offerings at parishes have risen 14 percent over the past 5 years This seems at first like a good thing But additional statistics from the report titled The Changing Face of U S Catholic Parishes reveal a more complicated picture of the state of th

USA Today s Mark Pinsky has a column today dedicated to Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino the current Archbishop of Havana nbsp Though there s no shortage of cardinalatial news today Pinsky s piece caught my eye because it suggests that the 74-year-old prelate might himself have a new post

From Envio magazine via Mirada Global In the morning of the 15th of May 1984 young Carlos Cuevas Molina was riding his motorbike to the historical center of Guatemala City when he was intercepted by two cars driving against the traffic Witnesses who recorded the license plates numbers saw how his

Cambridge MA It is mid-summer mdash exactly half way between the end of the spring semester and the start of the fall semester ndash and so a precious quiet time in academe The Center for the Study of World Religions occupies several of my hours each day but here too there is a summer lull

Again nbsp That makes at least three masterpieces found in Jesuit residences including a Caravaggio in Ireland and a Tintoretto in Pennsylvania nbsp We really have to start paying more attention nbsp Here s the story from the BBC A lost painting by Renaissance artist Michelangelo has been

Today brings the second installment 8th film of the seventh Harry Potter book Harry Potter and nbsp The Deathly Hallows to the big screen Millions of devoted Potter fans will line up for one last time mdash bringing their enthusiasm and garish costumes mdash as the epic film series comes to a c