Unlike many introductions to Thomas Merton this new short clip appearing today on PBS s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly website includes nbsp an introduction to nbsp the present-day Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Bardstown Kentucky nbsp It also includes interviews with Paul Pearson dire

Read Elizabeth Scalia on First Things responding to the furor in the pro-life community over the killing of Dr George Tiller nbsp Scalia also writes the blog The Anchoress nbsp Slippery slope is a useful clich eacute particularly on this issue The same slippery slopes that call for the man

Bustedhalo has just posted a fascinating conversation with Sister Bernadette Reis of the Daughters of St Paul full disclosure a friend and her cousin Paul Mages a gay man living with his partner nbsp Their candid conversation reveals a great deal about the how the church can better respond

Everything about the death of George Tiller saddens me including the bloggers and commenters who are angry bitter and vitriolic nbsp still even in the face of death nbsp nbsp So how about some good news nbsp The American Academy of Religion has handed out their annual awards to the incre

While way too many people in the Catholic blogosphere were way too concerned with whether Father Alberto nbsp Cutie should have left nbsp Holy Mother Church nbsp so quickly or whether Judge Sonia Sotomayor was sufficiently Catholic Massgoer or just occasional Massgoer or just how much of a lib

Father Alberto Cutie sorry I can t figure out how to do accents but he gets one on the e has left the Catholic church and has been received into the Episcopal church in Miami after having decided that he could no longer live nbsp the nbsp promise of celibacy he made at his ordination nbsp

The newly nominated U S ambassador to the Holy See Miguel H Diaz a nbsp superb choice a Latino Catholic a recognition of the enormous influence of Latinos in the U S church a professor of theology with terrific credentials St Thomas Notre Dame Collegeville and a Rahner scholar to boot

--When I waxed enthusiastic to a friend about seeing this movie she said ldquo How can you be so rapturous about a film about a suicide rdquo But suicide is not what the film is about Nor does one come away from the film feeling depressed mdash just the opposite The goodness of Solo and his

The very talented Judge Sonia Sotomayor President Obama s choice for Supreme Court justice is as you ve probably heard a Roman Catholic and the product of Catholic schooling nbsp As a result the unfortunate question How Catholic was bound to come up nbsp Frankly the only person who can

Perhaps only the estimable Dave Gibson Beliefnet and ahem Commonweal blogger and author of The Rule of Benedict could see--and make--the connections between Carrie Prejean the controversial Miss California Queen Esther the biblical heroine Katharine Harris and Sarah Palin nbsp Gibson