Fr Roy Bourgeois MM the Maryknoll priest who has been threatened with excommunication for his participation at nbsp an nbsp ordination rite nbsp for women will nbsp travel to the Vatican to appeal his decision nbsp AP is reporting with a contingent of fellow priests and a bishop nbsp Despi

nbsp From The New York Times by Victoria Burnett AP a surprising development in a case that has great meaning for many of our readers and our editors as well Nearly 20 years after the Salvadoran Army killed six Jesuit priests in one of the most notorious events of El Salvador s civil war a

From The New York Times First Pictures Taken of Extrasolar Planets The heavens declare the glory of God the sky proclaims its builder s craft nbsp One day to the next conveys that message one night to the next imparts that knowledge There is no word or sound no voice is heard Yet the

For all those Mad Men fanatics out there and I know you re there--whenever we post on that show we get loads of hits here s a provocative article on the ways that Arthur Miller s midcentury Death of a Salesman anticipated some of the themes of AMC s hit show nbsp Mark Scalese the au

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp George Coyne SJ the former director of the Vatican observatory talks to Bustedhalo com on this lively video and explains the church s official view on evolution nbsp It s called Is evolution making a monkey out of the Catholic church Check it out here nbsp

From CNS Bishops approve section of missal translation rejected in June By Nancy Frazier O Brien Catholic News Service BALTIMORE CNS -- Despite some continued criticism that the translation is plagued by obscure wording and sentences that are too long the U S bishops approved another lengthy

Just released by the USCCB is this statement on the election of Barack Obama and the abortion issue STATEMENT of the President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops ldquo If the Lord does not build the house in vain do its builders labor if the Lord does not watch over the city i

Father Roy Bourgeois M M nbsp the Maryknoll priest nbsp best known for work nbsp to nbsp close the School of the Americas the US-run school that had trained paramilitary forces primarily from Latin American countries some of whom carried out brutal murders has been told in a letter from the

The Duty of Delight The Diaries of Dorothy Day Edited by Robert Ellsberg Marquette Univ. Press. 700p $42 This first edition of the collected diaries of Dorothy Day is bound to become a modern spiritual classic. Many Catholics already know some basic facts about the American-born founder of the Catho

A typically astute article by Peter Steinfels--one of his very best--in The New York Times on the Catholic vote here Here is Steinfels Many Catholics may understandably feel that the bishops are talking out of both sides of their mouths Catholics are not supposed to be single-issue voters b