With the nationwide heat wave forcing us indoors summer reading has become an even more essential part of the season Respected book-blog The Millions suggests a comprehensive summer reading list and looks ahead to some of the most anticipated forthcoming books of 2010 Included is Rick Moody s lat

Bishop Kevin Dowling s hard-hitting talk on the dismantling of Vatican II which I blogged about below nbsp has apparently been expunged from the Independent Catholic News site nbsp Let us know if you find it anywhere else on the web nbsp nbsp Perhaps the Independent website isn t all that i

nbsp Eagle-eyed America readers and church observers will have noticed that two America authors have been selected for leadership roles by Pope Benedict Blase Cupich a frequent contributor to our pages and formerly the bishop of Rapid City S D has been named Bishop of Spokane Washington And

Cambridge MA As you know from my last blog I am way behind on current events insofar as I ever catch up due to a very busy June and most recently my retreat near Dublin Much that I would have written can be allowed to pass without observable loss However I did want to return to the item not

In the course of the day during my summer teaching instructing six Jesuit scholastics from Italy and Mexico in English conversation and reading comprehension we trade a lot of jokes about how Jesuits from different countries perceive each other nbsp Today s zinger came from a perceptive Mexican

The Israel Defense Force rsquo s Military Advocate General has decided to discipline or indict a number of officers and soldiers for their conduct during winter 2008-2009 rsquo s controversial ldquo Cast Lead rdquo operation in Gaza An IDF staff sergeant has been indicted for manslaughter for all