Funeral Plans have been announced by the New York Province of the Society of Jesus for Avery Cardinal Dulles SJ who died this morning at the Jesuit infirmary at Fordham University There will be a Mass of the Holy Name of Jesus particularly for Jesuits in New York and religious and cl

Today the church lost a world-historical figure His Eminence Avery Cardinal Dulles SJ nbsp For many Jesuits they have lost a great friend Avery nbsp Let me tell you a few brief stories about my generous friend nbsp Others knew him far better than I did many Jesuits studied with him over

This morning we received this announcement from the New York Province of the Society of Jesus This is to inform you that Avery Cardinal Dulles died this morning at about 6 30 at Murray-Weigel Hall nbsp Funeral arrangements will be announced shortly May he rest in peace nbsp Murray-Weigel H

Why do so many Catholics still distrust Thomas Merton Forty years ago today Thomas Merton a Trappist monk and perhaps the most popular American Catholic writer in history stepped out of a bathroom shower during a visit to Bangkok Slipping on the wet floor he grabbed a poorly wired fan for supp

Cardinal George Pell the archbishop of Sydney Australia about to celebrate the Tridentine Mass in Rome on Dec 8 H T to orbiscatholicus blogspot and Robert Mickens James Martin SJ

This feast always makes me think of St Bernadette Soubirous nbsp As you ll remember the Virgin Mary appeared to her in one of the last apparitions at Lourdes and said in the local patois I am the Immaculate Conception nbsp This was in 1858 four years after Pope Pius IX had proclaimed

Last night I finished reading Paul Mariani s astonishing new biography Gerard Manley Hopkins A Life which we reviewed in a Bookings section of our magazine a few weeks ago nbsp It is simply extraordinary nbsp For many years the standard biography of Hopkins has been Gerard Manley Hopki

Lisa Miller a senior editor at Newsweek who oversees all the mag s religion reporting and does a great job at it has a cover story posted online today nbsp on what the Bible says and may intend and doesn t say about same-sex marriages and homosexuality in general nbsp The most surpris

Since lots of our readers are interested in this topic vis-a-vis our new president here is Russell Shaw writing about FOCA If you re up on this you ll know what it is If not get up on it In Our Sunday Visitor s blog nbsp the Daily Take nbsp Shaw former spokesman for the USCCB and

Here s a little piece at NPR org on the increasing popularity of the newest kind of Christmas card even among devout Christians the family card nbsp The other two are the religious card--Mary and Jesus nbsp And the secular card--snowmen and snowy villages You all know what I m talking ab