Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes who appeared to St Bernadette Soubirous in 1858 nbsp The shrine in Southern France is of course one of the great Catholic pilgrimage sites nbsp But because of time or money or illness you might not be able to journey to Lourdes even if you are devote

Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams was most recently in the national headlines for the arrest of a Pennsylvania abortionist and his staff because of a little house of horrors they were maintaining in West Philadelphia Today he announced some other alleged horrors out of Philadelphia in th

Michael O Hanlon has a post up on Confession A Catholic App Yes there s evan an app for that nbsp nbsp It spurred some reflections too long for a comment The app is essentially an examination of conscience ported to the iPhone nbsp At least two similar apps have been around for a while nb

There are as many paths to God as there are individuals This series on Huffington Post looks at six of the most well-traveled paths for contemporary believers nbsp Today we look at this path of exploration A few years ago I worked with an Off-Broadway acting company that was producing on a ne

I ve had the delight and challenge for the last several years of being involved with the Rock and Theology Project underwritten by Liturgical Press involving theologians who are also rock musicians and fans writing about the overlap of sacred theology and secular music And in the spirit of in

Noting that the majority of Catholics who serve in the 112th Congress are far more conservative than those in the previous two former George W Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson asks in the Washington Post ldquo What influence is this shift likely to have rdquo The short answer in Gerson rsquo