Just back from the Catholic Theological Society of America s convention in San Jose where on the first night the bishop of the local diocese Patrick J McGrath before the entire membership noted that in the past all the best theologians were bishops but that was a long time ago nbsp He the

Check out Jeffrey Eugenides engaging new short story nbsp Asleep nbsp in the Lord nbsp in this week rsquo s New Yorker nbsp Or don rsquo t check it out nbsp since it rsquo s hidden behind a subscriber wall just go out and buy the mag nbsp It rsquo s nbsp the story of nbsp Mitchell a you

Elizabeth Johnson CSJ has finally responded at length to the public critique of her book Quest for the Living God by the USCCB s Committee on Doctrine nbsp It is a wise learned and gracious response that also demonstrates nbsp Sister Johnson s nbsp superlative command of the theological ques

Here s a confession I was biased when I saw Terrence Malick rsquo s astonishing new film ldquo The Tree of Life rdquo nbsp Very biased nbsp For one thing I am an enormous fan of I rsquo ll use the word since it fits the director rsquo s oeuvre nbsp One of the first things I read about M

Here is Sister Mary Ann Walsh director of media relations for the USCCB in Huffpo about the Woodstock explanation of the clergy sex abuse crisis nbsp The gray-haired hippies who are now retiring from proper jobs in areas such as education law medicine and public service agree They reflec

Oscar Arnulfo Romero: santo immediatamente!

The nbsp archbishop of Dublin was beginning to sniffle He could not get through a story about ldquo a really nasty man rdquo mdash an Irish priest who sexually abused physically tortured and emotionally threatened vulnerable boys mdash without pulling out his handkerchief and wiping his nose

You won rsquo t be surprised to discover that we get all kinds of crazy letters here nbsp And I don rsquo t mean simply letters that seem odd or strange or even letters that I don t fully understand mdash I mean crazy nbsp As a Jesuit friend told me last night ldquo No nut like a religious nu

At Elizabeth Taylor rsquo s funeral in March the actor Colin Farrell read ldquo The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo rdquo by the English Jesuit priest and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844-1889 The poem was reported to be among the late actress rsquo s favorites nbsp In a special addition to o

Today is the Feast of St Charles Lwanga and Companions also known as the Ugandan Martyrs or the African Martyrs nbsp The story is not particularly well known in the United States but in Africa the martyrs are an important part of the Catholic and Anglican tradition nbsp During my time wit