As part of his doctoral research in the education program at St Louis University in the 1990s Michael Maher studied the attitudes toward student homosexuality in Catholic high schools He was shocked by the silence about this topic When he met with four experienced Catholic school counselors wit

Today a 30-day online retreat that is one in which you can follow the suggestions for meditation by viewing a new web page each day begins nbsp nbsp It is sponsored by the Jesuit Refugee Service USA and follows the Spiritual Exercises nbsp of St Ignatius Loyola nbsp In his 19th Annotation

Polling of all sorts always contains a margin of error usually about 3 percent though it pays to check each poll Of course some pollsters can at times be just plain wrong or worse even biased This should make readers wary of their predictions Since some online comments in response to more th

It is 7 a m British time and the results of yesterday rsquo s U S election have reached London There were few surprises one of those rare moments in recent American politics when the polls and pundits got it right The question on everybody s mind of course is what the results mean When folks

At the funeral in Baghdad yesterday for the dozens of Christian hostages killed by Al-Qaeda gunmen on Sunday the Chaldean Patriarch Emmanuel III Delly head of Iraq s largest Catholic church said the victims had been struck by the devil s hand Six young foreign-born Islamic militants burst into

Yesterday was the official pub date for Fr Ray Schroth s new biography of Robert F Drinan S J --the controversial Jesuit priest and congressmen--and NCR has already weighed in with a positive review As the review notes the most intriguing question raised by the book is whether Drinan who serve