Former Fordham president, associate editor at America and longtime friend and colleague of Avery Cardinal Dulles, delivered the homily at the Mass of the Holy Eucharist in honor of the late cardinal.

Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J.'s. lecture on hope, given a few weeks after the attacks on Sept. 11.

Why do so many Catholics still distrust Thomas Merton Forty years ago today Thomas Merton a Trappist monk and perhaps the most popular American Catholic writer in history stepped out of a bathroom shower during a visit to Bangkok Slipping on the wet floor he grabbed a poorly wired fan for supp

nbsp Cambridge MA I am in the midst of my ldquo Krsna in Advent rdquo series mdash nbsp the first entry posted a few days ago the next to come in a few days mdash but I cannot help but interrupt to remember two great Christian intellectuals and writers who died forty years ago on Decembe