Cambridge MA May 27 was graduation day at Harvard a splendid ceremonial event as well as occasion of myriad smaller personal and family instances of celebration and thanksgiving as a truly global community descended upon Harvard Yard for the main ceremonies But of still greater interest to me

An unusually long astute nbsp and searching pastoral letter from Mark Coleridge archbishop of Canberra and Goulborn in Australia on sexual abuse nbsp He lists several factors among others behind the abuse Oslash nbsp One factor was a poor understanding and communication of the Church rsqu

We were able to snag a preview copy of the new HBO drama The Special Relationship airing nbsp this Saturday which stars Michael Sheen as again Tony Blair and Dennnis Quaid as Bill Clinton nbsp The show looks at the complicated political and personal relationship between the two with a stand

The producer of a popular TV drama series about a Spanish village priest is seeking a Benedict XVI double nbsp Voz Audiovisual makers of the longrunning Galician series Padre Casares says applicants should have a striking physical resemblance to the Pontiff but don t need previous experience o

Our friends at Catholics United issued a press release yesterday announcing that they had dropped off a petition at the chancery offices of the Archdiocese of Boston The petition reads simply ldquo To His Eminence Cardinal Sean O rsquo Malley We the undersigned believe that every child should

In the name of the order I acknowledge with shame and guilt our failure Fr Stefan Dartmann SJ the German Jesuit provincial said today I ask for forgiveness His comments came as the Society of Jesus released a report into abuse at its schools over many decades The report which records 205