Cambridge MA Saturday March 13 As you know I generally leave to others the hottest issues of the day preferring to offer for your reflections comments on less noticed topics that captivate me at least most recently the relevance of the medieval Hindu poet saints Antal and Tirumalisai Piran to

Since so many of our blogposts lately have thanks to recent nbsp events nbsp dealt with homosexuality same-sex marriage and so on here s a gay Catholic speaking about what it means to be one nbsp Andrew Sullivan author former editor of The New Republic and blogger on The Daily Dish at Pri

nbsp As Tom Beaudoin mentioned in his post below the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress begins this week and will attract over 40 000 Catholics to the Anaheim Convention Center for Masses workshops lectures and--my guiltiest pleasure--spending my limited stipend on all the new Cat

nbsp As a native and in my heart current Philadelphian I am totally biased about the new film that Kerry Weber has reviewed The Art of the Steal about the highly controversial move of the little-known-but-now-much-more-well-known Barnes Foundation a small museum in Merion Pa in

I have found myself marveling this week at the small parade of gay-outings among U S politicians Like previous media outings of closeted politicians these expose men who have often built their reputations and careers on their passion for family values and their antipathy to anything that smacks o

Cardinal Christoph Sch ouml nborn conservative Archbishop of Vienna and an ordinary to Austria s Eastern Rite Catholics said this question should be considered as part of an ldquo unflinching examination rdquo of the possible causes of the scandal From The Times These included ldquo the iss