I rsquo ve got a soft spot in my heart for women religious nbsp Maybe you do too nbsp It rsquo s not surprising nbsp I rsquo ve known so many who have been my teachers spiritual directors confidants role models nbsp and friends nbsp And of course so many of my saintly heroes hav

Just posted to our home page this video pilgrimage to the shrine if Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini in Manhattan Thanks to Fr Jim Martin and Kerry Weber for their on and off air talents We hope to post more of these over the course of the summer Tim Reidy nbsp

The Times Literary Supplement has posted this essay on the cheeriness of G K Chesterton free online You must read it The piece is occasioned by Ian Ker s new biography of Chesterton which will be reviewed in our pages soon But particularly intriguing are Bernard Manzo s reflections on a book

When I was visiting China about five years ago and people-watching on the main drags of Beijing and Shanghai two things stood out One I had grown up imagining the Chinese people as shorter than those in the western world but here were young men much taller than I I rsquo m 6 rsquo 3 rdquo lo

A documentary shown last night on the BBC told a familiar story of clerical sex abuse Four members of the Rosminian order regularly abused boys in their care at two schools -- one in the UK the other in Africa -- in the 1950s Abused - breaking the silence was an extremely well-made sensitive f

Americans sometimes evince an erroneous understanding of an idea that is in the bedrock of U S government mdash the separation of church and state One commonly sees this misunderstanding in letters to the editor and blog comments about such controversial topics as gay marriage abortion and end-o