Jesuit playwright Bill Cain S J has penned a new and searingly powerful play Just a year after his earlier successful play about the gun powder plot Equivocation see my review Cain portrays in his new play 9 Circles a character Daniel Reeves as a disturbed 19-year old snarled in the web o

Judging the success of a papal visit is never a scientific exercise But there are certain criteria was the Pope listened to or ignored Did people turn out Did the media give it good coverage Did words and actions go together Were there moments which made people sit up Some visits however wo

What happened to the Democrats emphasis on reaching out to the religious left as they did in 2008 nbsp That s what David Gibson at Politics Daily wants to know Of the many reasons cited for the Election Day shellacking administered by Republicans to President Obama and the Democrats perhaps

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I ve arrived back in London to find that five Anglican bishops -- three serving and two retired -- have announced that they will be joining the Catholic Church next year via the ordinariate scheme - and presumably bringing priests and lay people in their tow The Daily Telegraph estimates that aroun

Josepmaria Tarragona is one of the world s leading experts on the architect of the Sagrada Familia Antoni Gaudi and one of the founders of the association which is promoting Gaudi s sainthood I sat down with him over coffee this morning after visiting the Basilica with Tarragona and an Italian fi