Fr Jack Collins a Paulist priest asks passersby what they know about the saints and the answer is almost nothing at all nbsp It s from Bustedhalo com s series You Don t Know Jack nbsp There s one guy at the end who seems to know a little but he looks rather shady James Martin SJ

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The word respect comes from a Latin verb meaning to look at so this October is naturally a time to look at life and as Christians discern ways to cherish and promote life on this Earth From the countless brochures being handed out in Catholic churches across the United States this October--the

There was a time -- and it lasted many years -- when the crisis caused by clerical sex abuse happened outside the Vatican s walls Even when it was no longer seen as just an Anglo-Saxon problem it remained a bishops problem a question for the local Church as it was known in Rome There was plen

That s America s not of course America s Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University has a hard-hitting article under that title at the Guardian that s well worth a read He paints a picture of a United States in a nasty mood no longer interested in compassion and falling into the politics of rac

The decision to award Robert Edwards the developer of in vitro fertilization the Nobel Prize received front page coverage from the New York Times today The story notes the church s objections to the procedure but does little to flesh them out For more on that front see today s story from Cathol