An excellent article maybe the best short treament I ve read yet on the holiness of John Paul II soon to be beatified nbsp It s by John Thavis Catholic New Service s veteran Vatican correspondent and stresses his personal holiness that is his personal spiritual life and relationship to God

Cardinal Donald Wuerl archbishop of Washington DC and chairman of the USCCB s Committee on Doctrine issued today a further nbsp explanation nbsp for the bishops critique of Sister Elizabeth Johnson s book Quest for the Living God and responded in particular to a statement nbsp published nbsp b

Mother Teresa is quoted as saying God doesn t look at how much we do but with how much love we do it nbsp If you want to spend a couple hours getting to know someone whose life and work is permeated with a true and palpable sense of joy go see the documentary Bill Cunningham New York From

Anyone else notice that the late David Foster Wallace s much-talked about but not fully finished novel The Pale King features a Jesuit accounting teacher I haven t read the book but it seems like a surprising character choice Is there anything to this or was Wallace just being clever mdash try

ldquo The Silence rdquo a Frontline investigation of church abuse in Alaska airs on PBS on Tuesday April 19 at 9 p m The tiny white plane banks scouting out the cluster of shack-like homes below spread out on a field of snow then lands in what is a God-forsaken stretch of Alaska 200 miles s

Palm Sunday raises at least two nbsp important spiritual questions for Christians What does it mean to be like Jesus And what does it means to take up our crosses just like he did First you don t need to go looking for your cross Life gives them to you Whether it s an illness or a tough famil