One of our favorite new film reviewers is John Anderson who has already appeared several times in our Culture section online and in print and reviews regularly for the New York Times Arts amp Leisure Section and Variety His review of Ridley Scott s new film Robin Hood starring Russell Crowe

The following is the text of a letter sent to members of Congress on May 19 from the USCCB on the topic nbsp of the Employment Nondiscrimination Act ENDA and in relation to that same-sex marriage May 19 2010 Dear Member of Congress We write to you regarding the Employment Nondiscrimination

In a provocative op-ed this morning in the New York Times the Dalai Lama speaks of his 1968 encounter with Thomas Merton and the need for religions to highlight what unites us nbsp Interestingly Merton is often nbsp criticized by some Catholics for not being sufficiently Catholic towards the

One of 19 U S women s religious orders specifically nbsp identified as the next step in the Vatican s Apostolic Visitation the Adrian Dominican Sisters of Adrian Michigan are being investigated nbsp The story is outlined in this piece from the Detroit Free Press They ve taught legions of De

The Lives of Jack LondonJames L. HaleyBasic Books. $29.95For those who know Jack London only from their high school days, that is, as a writer of supposedly “young-adult” tales like the novel The Call of the Wild or the supreme short story “To Build a Fire,” this riveting bio

nbsp Normally I don t blog about articles in the Culture section in the print edition but I want to draw your attention to an online slide show of the work of Jonathan Alpeyrie a prominent photographer who in December of 2009 visited the remote monastery of Kintsvisi in Georgia nbsp We fit a

Here on one of my favorite shows Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett carried on NPR are two of my favorite Jesuits and two friends George Coyne S J and Guy Consolmagno S J both astronomers working at the Vatican Observatory in Rome and in Tucson nbsp Just one is fun enough two is

The fifth in a series on Huffpost nbsp If only I could experience God then perhaps I could believe That s a refrain of quite a few seekers and agnostics But they may already have experienced God the desire for God is very often a sign of God s call to us In the echo of our longing for the

Cathy Kaveny professor of law and theology at Notre Dame nbsp has weighed in on Dotcommonweal on the controversy surrounding the announcement of the excommunication of nbsp Margaret McBride a Sister of Mercy pictured at right by Bishop Thomas Olmstead of Phoenix for her approval of an abortio

I ll bet you could use one nbsp Here s one in the WSJ today about the Cristo Rey success story something of which we Jesuits are inordinately proud or at least as proud as we re allowed to be On June 10 Cristo Rey High School in East Harlem will graduate all of its 50 seniors All come from f