Good question nbsp Bustedhalo has the answer in a multimedia presentation nbsp Oh and the Muzak was supposed to be a backdrop for someone who was waiting as one does in Purgatory James Martin SJ

One of the great things about working at the magazine is that you rsquo re among the first to see newly published books nbsp Let me share with you three that are currently on my nightstand and which I rsquo ve just started nbsp The first we received through the mail the second two I stumbled u

One of the great things about blogging is being able to point people to fun inspiring and serious pieces elsewhere on the web nbsp Sadly this directly contradicts what I just learned at the LA Religious Ed Congress just a few days ago during an informative web seminar run by MyCatholicVoice com

As we reported on this blog the Vatican has announced that has scheduled an official visitation of women s religious orders next year Typically visitations and no the term has nothing to do with Mary and Elizabeth are undertaken to correct some kind of problematic situation in a dioces

Happy Ash Wednesday As I mentioned in an Of Many Things column a few years ago an in an NPR piece my Lenten sacrifices come to me from a Jewish friend named Rob with whom I roomed in college and his family At the time my mostly Jewish friends meaning that most of my friends were Jewish n

In case you missed The Colbert Report last night here s a conversation about vocation the vow of poverty and an unusual new image of God James Martin S J

The paradoxes of Ash Wednesday

Vinita Hampton Wright is one of my favorite spiritual writers nbsp And full disclosure she was also the copyeditor--and a fantastic one--for my book My Life with the Saints nbsp A few weeks ago I received a copy of her new book Days of Deepening Friendship For the Woman Who Wants Authen

This week L Osservatore Romano highlighted a study nbsp just in time for Lent nbsp on the sinful tendencies of the sexes nbsp The report according to the BBC nbsp was based on a study of confessions carried out by nbsp Roberto Busa S J a 95-year-old Jesuit scholar nbsp The Pope s pe

Bishop Fellay the superior of the Society of St Pius nbsp X said that nbsp it would be difficult to reach doctrinal consensus with the pope reports nbsp AP nbsp nbsp nbsp One gets the impression that Fellay feels that nbsp church will soon be brought to greater doctrinal clarity and Benedict