A great piece by John Allen in NCR on the five most common reasons that a candidate for sainthood is fast-tracked nbsp The biggest surprise is how many nbsp have been nbsp expedited since the reforms in the canonization procedures were first introduced nbsp Read his five reasons here

Here s a wonderful story on the Hispanic celebrations of tomorrow s Feast of the Presentation of the Lord aka Candlemas aka Candelaria by David Gonzalez at the New York Times nbsp nbsp Norma Castro laid the familiar figure on the counter before her next to a basket of poblano peppers Then i

Here s nbsp a bit of news nbsp that I ve known about for some time and have been eagerly anticipating sharing with you nbsp Now that the embargo has been broken here goes Liturgical Press one of the premier Catholic publishing houses is launching a new daily prayer resource in August 2011

Ah youth nbsp A report from The Catholic Herald in the UK As a young priest Pope Benedict put his name to a document calling for the Church to seriously investigate the obligation to priestly celibacy Joseph Ratzinger was one of the signatories of a 1970 document calling for an examination o

A lovely video on the March for Life with beautiful faces and a beautiful message nbsp The Sister of Life is especially eloquent nbsp

Over the last two years America s expanded Books amp Culture section has reviewed many of the season s critically lauded films including several of the nominees for Best Picture Here we provide links to these reviews by our team of critics nbsp See what our reviewers thought nbsp of this year

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 The first two parts considered nbsp The Path of Belief nbsp and nbsp The Path of Independence You might be surprised to hear of agnost

For anyone still having a hard time grasping the real-life effects of the economic downturn I can t imagine a better movie than The Company Men which I saw this weekend nbsp The film by ER s John Wells follows three men--well played by Ben Affleck Tommy Lee Jones and Chris Cooper--who lose

When the great writer Reynolds Price died a few days ago most obituaries omitted mention of his deep faith nbsp Yet much of his writing in later life focused on his Christian belief and practice nbsp For me his most affecting treatment of that topic is in nbsp Letter to a Godchild in which nbs

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