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

Loyola Productions has just released this video online a segment from the DVD Who Cares about the Saints nbsp A brief introduction to the life and times of Fr M Louis Merton OCSO

An extensive and well-reported review on the Newshour of the Vatican AIDS Conference with interviews with some key figures

From NCR nbsp Joseph Feuerherd nbsp NCR nbsp editor in chief and publisher died this morning after an 18-month battle with cancer He was 48 Funeral arrangements are pending Feuerherd died at 8 41 a m Eastern time at the Montgomery Hospice s Casey House in Rockville Md His family was at his