Two articles in the New York Times today will be of interest to Catholics nbsp The first on the front page by Laurie Goodstein focuses on the new Mass translations and provides a concise summary of nbsp the events leading up to Rome s approval of the changes nbsp Her article includes comment

The Catholic Theological Society of America s Board of Directors nbsp has responded to the USCCB Committee on Doctrine s nbsp critique of Elizabeth Johnson s book Quest for the Living God nbsp H t to Grant Gallicho at Dotcommonweal nbsp The nbsp statement and the list of signatories is on the

For those who have been following the public conversation between Fr Roy Bourgeois the well-known peace activist and founder of the School of the Americas Watch and the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers his religious congregation of many years nbsp over his support of women s ordination this lett

Loyola Press has just released the new paperback edition of nbsp A Jesuit Off-Broadway Center Stage with Faith Doubt Forgiveness and More and allowed me to offer nbsp an excerpt from the first chapter nbsp The book tells the story of nbsp six months working as a theological consultant to the

A mainstream movie with mainstream stars about a devout Christian with an overtly Christian message nbsp Helen Hunt and Dennis Quaid star in Soul Surfer a nbsp buzzed-about film opening on Friday nbsp John McCarthy in an online Culture piece takes a look at the movie about a surfer s brush wi

Mitch Pacwa SJ host of EWTN Live interviews the great Jesuit historian John Padberg SJ on the history of the Society of Jesus nbsp Father Padberg director and genearl editor of the Institute of Jesuit Sources has forgotten more about Jesuit history than I know nbsp The show is well worth

In a blunt lecture on Monday at Marquette University in Milwaukee Wis Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin nbsp made what to my mind is nbsp a stunning admission about the sexual abuse crisis in the church nbsp With perhaps two exceptions he has not encountered a real and unconditional admiss

Father James Martin on the worst mistake he made working as a young Jesuit among the East African refugees who settled in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya.

Orbis Books has just brought out a new edition of nbsp This Our Exile A Spiritual Journey with the Refugees of East Africa with a new afterword nbsp They have nbsp given permission to reprint the first chapter of the book as a way of introducing readers to the story of my two years of working w

A great new series from the U S nbsp Jesuit Conference on the path to priesthood called P2P and featuring a soon-to-be-ordained Radmar Jao nbsp Follow nbsp Radmar as he and several of his brother Jesuits nbsp move closer towards ordination this year nbsp Radmar s nbsp ordination will be o