John Perry a Candian Jesuit who teaches in Liberia sends along this report from Decoration Day in the country s interior The second Wednesday of March is a national holiday in Liberia It is called ldquo Decoration Day rdquo and Liberians spend the day refurbishing the graves of deceased family

Are you wondering whether you can have your Catholic wedding outside nbsp Trying to figure out how to get your special day in the church of your dreams even though you re not registered there and have no desire to go there ever again Are you frustrated that some old priest whose most contempora

What does a priest do in a parish that expects long homilies if he has come from a parish that dislikes them This was my situation when I arrived at the Jesuit-run St Ignatius in Brooklyn with its primarily Caribbean congregation that favors masses running to an hour and a half One Sunday a par

Yesterday members of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious met in Rome with Cardinal William Levada and members of the Vatican s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith which is investigating the LCWR for doctrinal issues as detailed in my earlier post nbsp nbsp Today the LCWR ha

Last Friday the National Institutes of Health issued new regulations governing embryonic stem cell research They are better than many expected and the anticipated outcry from Catholic circles has not materialized In fact most of the criticism of the guidelines is coming from the research communi

While we in New York were celebrating the installation of Archbishop Dolan and preparing for our Centennial Mass nbsp this news dropped nbsp Rumors had been around for the past few weeks among the secular media nbsp It s the news of the Vatican s investigation of the Leadership Conference of