Matthew, my 5-year-old nephew, has an unusual Mariology.

Today the New York Times featured a front-page story on the response of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to the sexual abuse crisis during the time when Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger was prefect nbsp For me the most nbsp surprising part of the article called Church Office Failed to A

In case you missed the Bustedhalo com talk on Summer Spirituality nbsp The Q amp A at the end around the one-hour mark was a nbsp especially fun

Tomorrow we will bid farewell on this blog to Michael Sean Winters one of our most indefatigable and nbsp most popular bloggers and someone well known to the readers of America nbsp Michael author of Left at the Altar How the Democrats Lost the Catholics and How the Catholics Can Save the Dem

Associate Editor Kevin Clarke appears in an upcoming issue wearing his reporter s hat The Last Days of St Vincent s See also his video-slideshow A Requiem for St Vincent s But this week online we asked him to try out some different skills in a review of a new documentary on HBO Gasland

What is the effect of the digital age on our relationship with God nbsp Does technology get in the way of faith nbsp Will Twitter set us on the nbsp path of virtual religion nbsp nbsp Can Facebook lead to a spiritual experience nbsp What about the nbsp need to pray vs our desire to c

Ah yes the famous anti-Catholicism of the New York Times nbsp In fact I was just speaking with someone about that topic today a person convinced that the New York Times has it out for or in for nbsp the Catholic Church nbsp Its nbsp supposed bias is thought to contribute to the paper s nbsp

This wonderful Mass and this wonderful event nbsp was celebrated last Saturday nbsp nbsp As usual Archbishop Dolan a friend of the Society was terrific nbsp Here is a video from Currents H T to The Deacon s Bench nbsp

L rsquo Osservatore Romano the official Vatican newspaper has praised mdash wait for it-- ldquo The Blues Brothers rdquo the 1980 comedy starring John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd as a classic Catholic film As moviegoers of a certain age will remember the film focuses on Jake and Elwood Blu

Well I guess he disagrees with me nbsp nbsp Actually he disagrees with M Cathleen Kaveny professor of theology and law at the University of Notre Dame who wrote nbsp on Dotcommonweal nbsp here about the excommunication of Sister Margaret Mary McBride nbsp He also disagrees with nb