My friend and colleague Austen Ivereigh has a post below about the revelations of corruption contained in a new investigative report by Jason Berry over at NCR I concur with everything that Ivereigh says except this It makes for shocking reading I was not shocked in the least Perhaps Austen ha

The first of two parts of a new Jason Berry investigation into the way the Legionaries of Christ oiled the Roman Curia through money and gifts is posted at NCR It makes for shocking reading The Pope emerges unscathed indeed is singled out for refusing an envelope of cash And it was Benedict XVI

My youngest of four daughters has moved out of the house She is now sharing an apartment with one of her sorority sisters only 50 miles from home She is halfway through her freshman year of college She is lovely witty compassionate intelligent thoughtful and completely ready to be out of th

This week begins America s Easter break hiatus but we will still be posting new content online including this interview with Scott Korb author of Life in Year One What the World Was Like in First-Century Palestine What did people eat where did they work and worship and what was their relation

One of the most surprising aspects of the reaction to the return of the clergy sex abuse scandal has been the way some commentators especially those on the Left have used the crisis to advance causes that do not actually have much to do with the underlying problems My colleague Father Martin has

Andrew Hamilton S J offers an unflinching and intriguing take on the Catholic abuse crisis seen through the perspective of Easter this week in Eureka Street the Australian Jesuits online magazine The stories of sexual abuse throughout the Catholic world are not a distraction from Easter If w