The ever-resourceful David van Biema religion reporter at Time and Time com has this provocative piece online on who should become a saint nbsp Some are already en route some are poised to step or more accurately be placed on the path some may simply surprise you nbsp See if your list ma

Last night in Scranton Pa nbsp Bishop Joseph nbsp Martino arrived nbsp unexpectedly at a church-sponsored forum on the presidential election and as the local newspaper puts it vehemently expressed his distaste for what was said about the church s stance on voting for pro-choice candidates

Were it not a Sunday tomorrow October 19 nbsp Masses would be celebrated to commemorate nbsp the Feast Day of the North American Martyrs the eight Jesuit priests and brothers martyred in Canada and New York the result of their work with native peoples in New France nbsp They are sometimes k

How do Senators McCain and Obama really stack up on all the life issues that have been championed by the Catholic church over the years nbsp Catholics United has a clever way of laying them out on their website for nbsp anyone uninterested in slogging through position papers nbsp Here it is Ja

Today s issue of The Wall Street Journal of all places has a few answers Right Louis and Zelie Martin who will be beatified this Sunday in Lisieux and their children nbsp Presumably the smallest--and most pious--one is St Therese of Lisieux nbsp James Martin SJ

See nbsp how David van Biema at Time and a few others answer that question something that nbsp a lot of people are asking in these parlous financial times nbsp Maybe the psalms can help you more than you think with your worries about mortgage-backed securities and your retirement plans James

I can rsquo t let today go by without giving you a little snapshot of a wonderful gathering of committed religious and a bit of an epiphany that happened this weekend in Louisville Kentucky nbsp Which I was told several times was pronounced not Loo-ee-ville and not even Lou-a-ville but in fa

Pope Benedict XVI has been speaking about his predecessor Pope Pius XII in very favorable terms lately specifically at the world Synod of Bishops when he explicitly mentioned Pius s response to the Holocaust nbsp All this has raised expectations that nbsp his beatification may be imminent nb

Here s a trailer of what looks like a wonderful new movie in post-production about the Mighty Macs the storied womens basketball team from Immaculata College run by the IHM sisters in sylvan nbsp Immaculata Pennsylvania The team nbsp won the first national women s basketball champi

Here s news from Fresno California courtesy of the local news station there about Father Geoffrey Farrow who opposed California s Proposition 8 and also revealed that he is gay in a homily on Sunday From the local media Father Geoffrey Farrow of the Saint Paul Newman Center in northeast