The USCCB has posted apparently without fanfare the Vatican s final report from the Apostolic Visitation of seminaries and houses of formation for religious orders from 2006 nbsp The visitation received widespread interest coming as it did after the sexual abuse crisis and in response to V

Fr Manuel Musallam the Parish Priest of Gaza has told Caritas Jerusalem There are dead bodies lying on the streets The clinics are carrying out operations on the floor and women have no place to give birth There is extreme fear everywhere here The phosphorous gas being thrown in by Gaza is c

President George W Bush thinks history will be kinder in its assessment of his foreign policy than current popular opinion It is difficult to see how Bush rsquo s reputation is tied up entirely with the Iraq War It is a commonplace to say that the world is well rid of Saddam Hussein and who can

The eminent sociologist Robert Bellah the lead author of the landmark book Habits of the Heart has a fascinating essay on nbsp Barack Obama nbsp the website The Immanent Frame nbsp And these reflections on the president-elect and the nbsp common good a nbsp popular phrase in Catholic nbsp so

Cambridge MA Each year in January I head out to Los Angeles mdash or more precisely Culver City within LA mdash to be with the Jesuit novices of the West Coast for a few days of conversation on interreligious dialogue I wrote about this last year in this space so need not describe again t

President Bush rsquo s press conference the day was galling in many ways The man rsquo s inability to admit a mistake was stunning Hell I rsquo ve made plenty of mistakes in the past eight years How about you But nothing was more pathetic than his truculence regarding the federal response to th