It s funny how much a movie can influence your spiritual life nbsp Jennifer Jones who died yesterday at 90 won an Academy Award for her performance as St Bernadette Soubirous in the 1943 film The Song of Bernadette nbsp At the time of its release Catholic schoolchildren were taken

Michael Sandel the wildly popular Harvard professor whose courses on justice have drawn SRO crowds for two decades is the subject of a PBS series called Justice What s the Right Thing to Do which is also available for online viewing nbsp His book of the same title has just been published

The Seattle Times nbsp has picked up the story of the Rev Michael Ryan s piece on the new Mass translations What If We Just Said Wait which appeared in last week s edition of the magazine and generated a raft of responses both here 133 comments and counting and on other websites A new t

From Robert Mickens at The London Tablet Pope Benedict XVI has said that a Marxist-driven liberation theology is continuing to cause great harm to the Church in Brazil 25 years after he first tried to crack down on its proliferation ldquo Its consequences more or less visible in the form of rebe

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In our Culture section we re very lucky to have as one of our newest film reviewers John McCarthy the editor of Cineman Syndicate and the media correspondent for Catholic Digest He also reviews films for Catholic News Service and Boxoffice Magazine nbsp He joins our longtime reviewer Richard A

Talking about The Holy Family way back in October with American Catholic Radio in Cincinnati nbsp This was before recording an audio book which explains the--ahem--casual wear nbsp

The anniversary of the death of Thomas Merton Dec 10 1968 nbsp is coming up and I offer this meditation from a few years back Spots of time rdquo is what the poet William Wordsworth called those places that imprint themselves so deeply into our minds that simply remembering them can lift our

A great short piece by Melinda Henneberger at Politics Daily nbsp Actually I like to see pieces like just as much in these surprising places--like PD--as in in the Catholic blogosphere since they reach the seekers the curious the doubtful and disbelieving and make them think nbsp Happy Feast

Cardinal Jorge Lozano Barragan who had been quoted nbsp by Pontifex nbsp as saying nbsp that nbsp gays and lesbians could not enter the Reign of God says that he has been misquoted nbsp nbsp After his remarks were made public in Pontifex and made several Italian papers not to mention AP the