Before I leave for a retreat I thought I d post this video from the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management on the topic of joy during times of adversity nbsp The talk was nbsp at their annual meeting this June at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphi

If the above title sounds a little inside baseball to you a very very very brief nbsp explanation nbsp Alice von Hildebrand is a Catholic philosopher and theologian and also nbsp the widow of Dietrich nbsp von Hildebrand a prominent philosopher and moral theologian active in the anti-Nazi

News from the Telegraph Maria Jepsen 65 came under fire for her handling of the case of a pastor accused of abusing young boys and girls in the 1970s and 1980s in her northern nbsp German nbsp diocese of Hamburg She reportedly knew for several years about the case but failed to act My credibili

A nbsp portentous question no nbsp Well that did not dissuade the editors of Patheos an online religion website from posing the question to nbsp a variety nbsp of Catholics nbsp Patheos describes itself as follows Patheos com is the premier online destination to engage in the global dialog

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They that go down to the sea in ships that do business in great waters These see the works of the LORD and his wonders in the deep Psalm 107 nbsp Reality television usually contains little that is real nbsp For some years ldquo The Real World rdquo the progenitor of many American

Austen Ivereigh has already weighed in below on the new Vatican norms on sexual abuse pornography and the attempted ordination of women nbsp nbsp This morning in a nbsp media advisory announcing two press conferences the USCCB summed up the two features of the revisions nbsp bound to be th

A powerful story from The Boston Globe today Tucked into the benches at the Parish of the Incarnation of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on the last Sunday in June was a letter written by the Rev James A Field Diagnosed two years earlier with pancreatic cancer he had news to share in Melrose t

When my five-year-old nephew found out that there was to be a family wedding on July 9 of next year nbsp he admonished our family July 9 he nbsp said We can t go That s when Expectable Me opens nbsp Television had successfully drummed into his nbsp impressionable brain nbsp the opening

Paul Locatelli SJ a nbsp terrific Jesuit a fine priest a superb administrator longtime president of Santa Clara University and a longtime friend to many editors here at America died today at age 71 after a short battle with pancreatic cancer nbsp Until recently he had been working in a high