From Criterio magazine via Mirada Global a tribute to the late Argentinian writer He would have made it to being a century old if it hadn rsquo t occurred to him to die two months short of his 100th birthday Argentinean writer Ernesto Sabato was born in Rojas a city in the pampa 240 km from Bue

In a not surprising turn of events Catholic News Agency reports that while Cardinal Jose Policarpo s remarks were accurate about the possibility of women priests that they were taken out of context and that the president of Portugal s bishops confernce does not support female ordination From the

Below is a newly surfaced nbsp account of a brief conversation that Dorothy Day the co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement and longtime peace activist now being considered for canonization had with Daniel Marshall a longtime member of the Catholic Worker movement around 1977 a few years bef

Several people have asked whether I might say a bit more about biblical scholar Avaren Ipsen s recent book Sex Working and the Bible which I began to discuss in a recent post so I will go ahead and do so here Ipsen s basic approach is to provide agency for marginalized readers of the Bible not

For any readers interested in a challenging new book about sex workers and the Bible I have put up a post about it here Tom Beaudoin Hastings-on-Hudson NY

The novelist Mary Gordon who has a new book out commented a number of years ago on a disturbing theme in novels by the ldquo great American writers rdquo of the last century mdash Updike Roth Bellow Mailer etc mdash noting that with some exceptions the theme of the American novel was a youn