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

Today Oct 1 is the feast of St Therese of Lisieux popularly known as the Little Flower nbsp Though her spirituality is nbsp derided by some contemporary Catholics for being saccharine and sentimental her little way of doing small things with great love holds enormous appeal to millions of

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Here is Jim Wallis the editor of Sojourners magazine and a consistent voice on behalf of social justice and your own faithful blogger on PBS s Religion amp Ethics Newsweekly discussing the religious and moral implications of the financial crisis nbsp The show s host Bob Abernethy als

From Catholic News Service By Jonathan Luxmoore WARSAW Poland CNS -- A top Polish theologian known for his work in the field of ecumenism has rejected a demand from the Vatican to retract and rewrite an article criticizing the Vatican s attitude toward Christians of other denominations Oblat

Check it out nbsp a new resource specifically designed for Catholic women nbsp just launched by St Anthony Messenger Press which combines books reading guides CDs online author interviews and even e-greetings nbsp nbsp They ve done a fine job of creating a good nbsp resource for individu

Dean Hoge whose exacting timely and provocative sociological studies helped nbsp the world nbsp better understand American Catholicism nbsp and a frequent and valued contributor to America magazine has died at age 71 nbsp There is a fine obituary by Tom Fox in NCR nbsp Here is NCR nbsp

Here s the new trailer for the film Doubt starring Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman based on the Pulitzer-Prize-winning play by John Patrick Shanley The new movie focuses on a Catholic priest Hoffman accused of sexual improprieties by a sister Streep in 1964 The film will be o