The Number One movie in the country is about Jesuits and exorcism nbsp Raymond Schroth S J associate editor takes a look at the hit film The Rite starring Anthony Hopkins as the jaded-and-soon-to-be-bedeviled exorcist nbsp nbsp Perhaps the writers made Hopkins a Jesuit because Jesuits

I hope you will read this but suspect many will simply keep scanning It is a sad topic and probably will not evoke the spirited commentary of writings on women priests celibacy the rights of gays or newly discovered evidence of priestly abuse or associated cover-up For the past several years

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A great piece by John Allen in NCR on the five most common reasons that a candidate for sainthood is fast-tracked nbsp The biggest surprise is how many nbsp have been nbsp expedited since the reforms in the canonization procedures were first introduced nbsp Read his five reasons here

Here s a wonderful story on the Hispanic celebrations of tomorrow s Feast of the Presentation of the Lord aka Candlemas aka Candelaria by David Gonzalez at the New York Times nbsp nbsp Norma Castro laid the familiar figure on the counter before her next to a basket of poblano peppers Then i

Last Thursday was the first day of class for a university course I am teaching on Catholic novelists and I remembered to ask a question that always intrigues me with a new group of students nbsp What one book have you all read nbsp In other words is there any single novel that everyone in the