An unscientific survey of parish life in America

We re happy to introduce a new film reviewer whose name will most likely be familiar to many of our readers nbsp Harry Forbes for many years the former director of the U S Catholic Bishops Conference Office for film and broadcasting and whose job required him to review literally thousands of

The controversial comedian Sarah Silverman is known for her special brand of what might be called meta-comedy nbsp nbsp Her funniest bits mock mocking and offer up broad stereotypes to reveal the shallowness of well broad stereotypes nbsp ldquo I don rsquo t care if you think I rsquo m raci

Our online Culture section is now featuring nbsp the invaluable Father Robert Lauder s take on two powerful nbsp new films that might have escaped your notice but which might be coming to an indie-movie theater near you As Seen Through these Eyes and Rashevski s Tango nbsp nbsp Here s how h

The Anchoress thinks you should nbsp And she s right James Martin SJ

I cannot tell you how much I have enjoyed paging through this amazing new book written by two deacons of the LA archdiocese called Ascend nbsp Essentially it s an introduction to the Catholic faith for young adults and full disclosure I blurbed it but only because I loved it it s written in

US Catholic is launching a survery nbsp of both women religious and other Catholics about the apostolic visitation of women religious The editors of nbsp the magazine wrote to us Since there have been more questions than answers surrounding the visitation we decided to ask Catholics what they tho

NCR has obtained a copy of the USCCB s nbsp proposed document on marriage for their November meeting which you can read nbsp here nbsp Much of the document is taken up with the theology of marriage marriage as a nbsp sacrament as a sign of Christ s love as a symbol of the Trinity and of the c

The church will soon have a new saint nbsp This nbsp Sunday nbsp Oct 11 Pope Benedict XVI will canonize nbsp St Damien of Molokai or St Damien de Veuster nbsp He may fairly be called--with not too much of a stretch--an American saint an immigrant who came to work nbsp on what came to b

The New York Times has the story nbsp The United States Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport to delay the court-ordered release of thousands of legal documents from lawsuits filed against priests accused of child sex abuse The decision leaves few