Thanks to Greg Kandra at Deacon s Bench for alerting us to this great bit of news from the Diocese of Allentown the Vatican has given its formal approval for the canonization process for Walter Ciszek SJ 1904-1984 to begin nbsp Father Ciszek an American-born Jesuit and the author of With Go

The U S Conference of Catholic Bishops in a newly released statement have promised to continue their fight against the Obama administration s HHS mandate calling it a violation of personal civil rights The story on the USCCB website begins nbsp The U S bishops are strongly united in their

Here is a fantastic new program called Jesuit Commons Higher Education at the Margins JCHEM nbsp With this new initiative Jesuit colleges and universities nbsp strive to bring Jesuit education to people who are severely underserved for example those living in refugee camps In this video Ma

Eagle-eyed readers will notice a tiny change in the magazine rsquo s masthead soon nbsp Starting next week I rsquo ll be listed not as ldquo Culture Editor rdquo but as ldquo Contributing Editor nbsp I rsquo m grateful to Drew Christiansen our editor-in-chief and to John Schlegel S J our

I found this nbsp interview with Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin on nbsp 60 Minutes last night nbsp to be deeply moving nbsp The archbishop of Dublin nbsp is resolute about confronting the sex abuse crisis in his country he has rightly apologized to victims he nbsp correctly states that t

You didn t think we were going to pass up an opportunity to review The Artist did you nbsp Especially after its performance at the Oscars nbsp Victor Stepien looks at this unusual film nbsp Silent movies came to an end in the 1920s As talkies took over a whole generation of celebrated ac

Be sure to catch both parts of M Cathleen Kaveny professor of theology and law at Notre Dame explaining Catholic morality the role of the bishops and the development of the lay theologian on The Daily Show last night Part II can be found here It was noteable for being a calm and lucid dis

Too much coverage of Downton Abbey in the media nbsp Never nbsp For our second-season roundup we knew that there was only one writer for the job our film reviewer John Anderson who often writes for The New York Times and Variety nbsp My favorite apercu nbsp Perhaps the most remarkable t

There is an absolute nbsp plethora of spiritual resources on the web to help you in your journey during Lent nbsp In fact there are so many and I ve gotten so many emails promoting them that it s somewhat hard to keep track nbsp But here goes nbsp First off is our own series of bri

Mary Valle a smart savvy writer and an editor at Killing the Buddha recently attended a one-woman show on the life of St Catherine of Siena performed by an Adrian Dominican Sister named Nancy Murray mdash who is incidentally Bill Murray s sister What can Catherine of Benincasa say to us n