A tip from our friend Robert Mickens the Rome correspondent for nbsp the London Tablet nbsp He wrote this morning Andrea Tornielli writes in Il Giornale today that publication of the new Apostolic Constitution establishing the entrance of Anglicans into the Catholic Church is being held up by a

When I was 9 years old I spied an advertisement in a magazine for a plastic statue of St Jude I can rsquo t imagine which magazine this could have been since my parents weren rsquo t in the habit of leaving Catholic publications lying around the house but apparently the photo of the statue was

Martin E Marty one of the leading Protestant theologians here in this country and an estimable presence in the ecumenical world has a strongly worded commentary on the Vatican s gambit to attract more Anglicans into the Catholic Church Bypassing forty years of Anglican-Roman Catholic conversatio

That s David Gibson s contention in the Washington Post today nbsp Here s Gibson Thus far Benedict s papacy has been one of constant movement and change the sort of dynamic that liberal Catholics -- or Protestants -- are usually criticized for pursuing In Benedict s case this liberalism serv

Is there a ahem dark side to all this vampire-mania in pop culture today nbsp Jake Martin SJ our prolific TV reviewer thinks so nbsp In this newest Culture online piece he turns his attention to HBO s hit show True Blood and points out what many commentators seem to have missed ldquo T

In this time of the apostolic visitation which is intended to investigate the quality of life of women religious in the post-Vatican II era I d like to share with you the story of nbsp a woman religious who died just this morning in Dubuque Iowa--one of the best people I ve ever known nbsp S

Archbishop Raymond L Burke former archbishop of St Louis and currently prefect of the Apostolic Signatura the Vatican s highest court nbsp has been named to the Congregation of Bishops where he will have a great deal of say in who is chosen to become a bishop in the United States along with C

An unscientific survey of parish life in America

We re happy to introduce a new film reviewer whose name will most likely be familiar to many of our readers nbsp Harry Forbes for many years the former director of the U S Catholic Bishops Conference Office for film and broadcasting and whose job required him to review literally thousands of

The controversial comedian Sarah Silverman is known for her special brand of what might be called meta-comedy nbsp nbsp Her funniest bits mock mocking and offer up broad stereotypes to reveal the shallowness of well broad stereotypes nbsp ldquo I don rsquo t care if you think I rsquo m raci