Lent which nbsp begins with Ash Wednesday tomorrow in case you ve forgotten nbsp is often seen as a nbsp rather downbeat time focusing mainly on giving things up nbsp While sacrifice penance and self-abnegation are all valuable spiritual disciples that can help us detach ourselves f

Last year on the day after Thanksgiving I finally had the chance to visit after years of wanting to the Shrine of St Katharine Drexel the great Philadelphia heiress-turned-foundress nbsp The shrine in Bensalem Pa located a few miles from my family s home is also the home of the mother ho

Following up on Austen Ivereigh s illuminating post below another question What is the nbsp importance of Pope Benedict XVI rsquo s sweeping statements in the latest installment of his book series Jesus of Nazareth about the need not to hold the Jewish people responsible as a whole for the death o

There are as many paths to God as there are individuals This series on Huffpo s Religion Page nbsp looks at six of the most well-traveled paths for contemporary seekers This final path to God crosses all the other ones at various points People on the path of confusion run hot and cold with their c

ldquo Of Gods and Men rdquo is the greatest nbsp film on faith I rsquo ve ever seen nbsp It surpasses even some of my longtime favorite movies on the spiritual life like ldquo Romero rdquo ldquo Diary of a Country Priest rdquo ldquo A Man for All Seasons rdquo The Mission and ldquo

The Rev George W Hunt, S.J., editor in chief of America magazine from 1984-1998, died this morning at the Fordham University Jesuit community in New York.

A contemporary religious film lavishly praised by America magazine our reviewer John Anderson called it vaguely miraculous and The New York Times nbsp which today called it beatiful somber and rigorously intelligent nbsp Need you any more encouragement to see the award-winning Of Gods and

Our latest online Culture piece sees associate editor Kevin Clarke considering the implications terrible serious probable likely funny of Watson the IBM supercomputer trouncing two Jeopardy champions at their own game nbsp Whither nbsp the relationship between humans and computers nbs

Oh brother nbsp Hard not to bite your tongue when reading this nbsp Apparently Vatican II is important nbsp at the Vatican nbsp Traditionalist bishop cites lack of progress in talks with VaticanBy John Thavis Catholic News ServiceVATICAN CITY CNS -- The head of a group of traditionalist Cat

Irish Central reported today a dramatic scene in nbsp Dublin s St Mary s Pro-Cathedral nbsp part of the Vatican s visitation that is investigation by Cardinal Sean O Malley of Boston nbsp and Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York nbsp of the troubled church in Ireland H t Dotcommonweal and Whis