The Lazy Paralytic 1 When Jesus returned to Capernaum after some days it was reported that he was at his home 2 So many gathered around that there was no longer room for them not even in front of the door and he was speaking the word to them 3 Then some people came bringing to him a paraly

A prayer for frustrated Catholics

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious after an historic meeting this week in St nbsp Louis nbsp in response to the Vatican s Doctrinal Assessment has issued an official nbsp press release outlining their response nbsp The members charged the LCWR officers with beginning a conversation w

Here is a preview of a nbsp interesting new study on women religious sponsored by two prestigious Catholic organizations that shows--contrary to popular opinion and despite what a great many commentator have said--that almost equal numbers of women are entering both more traditional and progre

Blessed Peter Favre, St. Ignatius Loyola and St. Francis Xavier enjoyed a very close friendship, which began at the University of Paris, where the three were roommates. Fr. James Martin, SJ., offers a mediation on the friendship between the three men.

Here was an average man without much prior interest in religious observance, assuming that he could emulate two of the greatest saints in the Christian tradition.

Bishop Leonard Blair of Toledo who conducted the Vatican s doctrinal assessment of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious appeared on NPR s Fresh Air in the second part of the program s look at the LCWR nbsp Here is the full interview with Terry Gross in which Bishop Blair stated his be

One of the great figures in Jesuit history has died nbsp On Sunday Vincent T O rsquo Keefe S J died at age 92 at the Jesuit infirmary at Fordham University in New York nbsp ldquo Vinnie rdquo as he was almost universally known was not only a former president of Fordham 1963-196

I am not a political person nbsp I do not follow say political campaigns or the ins and outs of various pieces of legislation as closely as some of my friends do nbsp But I am a religious person nbsp Many of my political opinions then are formed by my religious ideals for example a com

When I saw this front-page nbsp headline nbsp in The New York Times this morning I groaned at least inwardly In Graying Priesthood New York s Grayest Keeps Faith in Bronx nbsp I expected another mournful article like For New York Archdiocese s One New Priest a Lonely Distinction a well-r