Check out this lively and free-wheeling interview with Tom Beaudoin one of our esteemed bloggers nbsp on the 20something blog Millennial Catholic on the theological underpinnings of rock and you could say the rockological underpinnings of theology complete with clips from some cool rock vid

Happy Feast of St Claude la Colombi egrave re 1641-1682 the spiritual director of St Margaret Mary Alocoque who had received the visions of the Sacred Heart in the Visitation convent at Paray-le-Monial in France When few in her convent trusted her experiences and she was reaching a point of

With all the hoopla over the new but poorly named Confession app it s more accurately described as an examination of conscience app but that sounds much duller to journalists it would be easy to overlook some other fine Catholic apps nbsp Jack McLain a Jesuit priest and self-confessed t

In our Signs of the Times this week Bill McGarvey provides an overview of the provocative weekend conference on 20-something Catholics sponsored by the Francis and Ann Curran Center for Catholic nbsp Studies and the Fordham Center for nbsp Religion and Culture last month entitled Twentysomething

Tired of all the trash-talking in the blogosphere on talk shows and in our political discourse nbsp Ever think to yourself Jesus had to be against that right nbsp Well here s a reflection on the Gospel reading for Sunday Feb 13 which offered us some lessons on nbsp charity in the Christ

Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes who appeared to St Bernadette Soubirous in 1858 nbsp The shrine in Southern France is of course one of the great Catholic pilgrimage sites nbsp But because of time or money or illness you might not be able to journey to Lourdes even if you are devote

There are as many paths to God as there are individuals This series on Huffington Post looks at six of the most well-traveled paths for contemporary believers nbsp Today we look at this path of exploration A few years ago I worked with an Off-Broadway acting company that was producing on a ne

You may have heard of TheDaily the new Ipad paper which was rolled out last week nbsp with great Murdochian fanfare nbsp In any event they asked me to write a short piece on my experiences blogging tweeting and Facebooking for God nbsp The results are here under Following Jesus which I

There are as many paths to God as there are individuals This is the fourth post in a series on Huffington Post nbsp that looks at six of the most well-traveled paths for contemporary believers The previous post explored The Path of Independence This path gets more crowded every year People i

The Number One movie in the country is about Jesuits and exorcism nbsp Raymond Schroth S J associate editor takes a look at the hit film The Rite starring Anthony Hopkins as the jaded-and-soon-to-be-bedeviled exorcist nbsp nbsp Perhaps the writers made Hopkins a Jesuit because Jesuits