The quote that jumped off the page for me in this lovely article about two friends who have taught for many decades in Catholic schools was this one comparing their experience to those of some of their public-school colleagues They love what they do and are offended by politicians who call themse

Frank Brennan SJ is one of most well known Australian Catholics nbsp The Australian Jesuit priest and lawyer has been in the forefront of human-rights work and has spent much of his time working on behalf of the Aboriginal peoples in his country nbsp On his Facebook page he has weighed in on t

From the New York Times House Speaker John A Boehner will nominate the Rev Patrick J Conroy a Jesuit priest and former Georgetown University chaplain to become the 60th House chaplain ldquo We are honored that Father Conroy has agreed to serve as House chaplain rdquo Mr Boehner said in a s

In case you ve not been following the dramatic saga of William Morris the Australian bishop of the Diocese of Toowoomba removed by the Vatican after an apostolic visitation led by Archbishop Charles Chaput and brought on by Morris s comments on women s ordination in 2006 here s nbsp one of the

As someone who worked at Ground Zero in the days and weeks following 9 11 I rejoiced to hear that Osama Bin Laden rsquo s long reign of terror which had dealt death destruction and untold misery to millions across the world had finally come to an end nbsp As a Christian though I cannot rejoic

Today the Vatican s spokesman Federico Lombardi S J released this statement on the death of Osama Bin Laden Osama bin Laden as we all know bore the most serious responsibility for spreading divisions and hatred among populations causing the deaths of innumerable people and manipulating rel

In honor of the beatification of Blessed John Paul II an examination of the saints devotion to and purpose of courtesy of Religion and Ethics Newsweekly today nbsp By the way a real question since I was in a Trappist monastery all weekend and missed the coverage Has John Paul been declared a

E J Dionne writing in the Washington Post today and Commonweal wants to fast-track the canonization of another pope John XXIII upon whose legacy John Paul built nbsp Absolutely nbsp May God grant a miracle in response to his intercession so that this nbsp extraordinary man may be venerated

Our editor Drew Christiansen S J nbsp alerted me to the documentary Forgiveness a beautiful two-part series that aired on PBS over the last two Sundays but which will also nbsp be repeated check local listings nbsp So I asked John Coleman Jesuit sociologist nbsp to review what he is cal