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This morning I spoke on the popular nbsp hour-long Radio Times show on WHYY the NPR affiliate in Philadelphia with Marty Moss-Coane nbsp The topic was the Vatican s investigation of the LCWR nbsp Notable was not only the length of the show which afforded the opportunity for an in-depth discu

Sister Mary Johnson SND de Namur is a nbsp professor of sociology at Emmanuel College in Boston and a member of the Center for Applied nbsp Research on the Apostolate in Georgetown nbsp She joined me on nbsp The Brian Lehrer Show on nbsp New York City s public radio station WNYC nbsp for a

Here s a lovely piece in The Boston Globe about Dan Kennedy a bright young man just graduated from Boston College who is entering the Jesuit novitiate this summer nbsp nbsp The profile nbsp gets pretty much everything right about its topic and avoids all the linguistic pitfalls that bedevil most

Thomas J Reese S J senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center in Georgetown and former editor in chief of America has sent us his keynote address to the Clergy Abuse Conference in Santa Clara University today I am not an expert on the crisis but rather a journalist commentator and

nbsp VATICAN CITY Catholic News Service -- Although she was never canonized St Hildegard of Bingen is to be added to the Catholic Church s formal list of saints and Catholics worldwide may celebrate her feast day with a Mass and special readings by order of Pope Benedict XVI nbsp The Vatica

Links fixed nbsp Here are two profiles both sympathetic of two nbsp church leaders nbsp whose approach to dialogue and authority will be key factors in the ongoing Vatican review of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious nbsp The first is a short piece in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

I ve watched this video a few times today and couldn t resist sharing with you nbsp Here is Archbishop Loris Capovilla the secretary for Pope John XIII reminiscing about his old friend and boss nbsp So much wisdom here nbsp Why don t we also get together to talk nbsp

In a Current Comment this week nbsp America s editors nbsp asked some questions about the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith s nbsp CDF Doctrinal Assessment of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious LCWR nbsp nbsp First there is the history of the assessment Catholics in the

In case you missed it Thomas J Reese SJ nbsp America s former editor in chief and a senior fellow at the Woodstock Institute in Georgetown who by the way has nbsp a Ph D in political science reminds Stephen Colbert and Paul Ryan that Jesus did ask us to care for the poor that the budget