Today s issue of The Wall Street Journal of all places has a few answers Right Louis and Zelie Martin who will be beatified this Sunday in Lisieux and their children nbsp Presumably the smallest--and most pious--one is St Therese of Lisieux nbsp James Martin SJ

See nbsp how David van Biema at Time and a few others answer that question something that nbsp a lot of people are asking in these parlous financial times nbsp Maybe the psalms can help you more than you think with your worries about mortgage-backed securities and your retirement plans James

I can rsquo t let today go by without giving you a little snapshot of a wonderful gathering of committed religious and a bit of an epiphany that happened this weekend in Louisville Kentucky nbsp Which I was told several times was pronounced not Loo-ee-ville and not even Lou-a-ville but in fa

Pope Benedict XVI has been speaking about his predecessor Pope Pius XII in very favorable terms lately specifically at the world Synod of Bishops when he explicitly mentioned Pius s response to the Holocaust nbsp All this has raised expectations that nbsp his beatification may be imminent nb

Here s a trailer of what looks like a wonderful new movie in post-production about the Mighty Macs the storied womens basketball team from Immaculata College run by the IHM sisters in sylvan nbsp Immaculata Pennsylvania The team nbsp won the first national women s basketball champi

Here s news from Fresno California courtesy of the local news station there about Father Geoffrey Farrow who opposed California s Proposition 8 and also revealed that he is gay in a homily on Sunday From the local media Father Geoffrey Farrow of the Saint Paul Newman Center in northeast

Today Oct 1 is the feast of St Therese of Lisieux popularly known as the Little Flower nbsp Though her spirituality is nbsp derided by some contemporary Catholics for being saccharine and sentimental her little way of doing small things with great love holds enormous appeal to millions of

The wonders of Lourdes in its jubilee year

Here is Jim Wallis the editor of Sojourners magazine and a consistent voice on behalf of social justice and your own faithful blogger on PBS s Religion amp Ethics Newsweekly discussing the religious and moral implications of the financial crisis nbsp The show s host Bob Abernethy als

From Catholic News Service By Jonathan Luxmoore WARSAW Poland CNS -- A top Polish theologian known for his work in the field of ecumenism has rejected a demand from the Vatican to retract and rewrite an article criticizing the Vatican s attitude toward Christians of other denominations Oblat