Tomorrow we will bid farewell on this blog to Michael Sean Winters one of our most indefatigable and nbsp most popular bloggers and someone well known to the readers of America nbsp Michael author of Left at the Altar How the Democrats Lost the Catholics and How the Catholics Can Save the Dem

Associate Editor Kevin Clarke appears in an upcoming issue wearing his reporter s hat The Last Days of St Vincent s See also his video-slideshow A Requiem for St Vincent s But this week online we asked him to try out some different skills in a review of a new documentary on HBO Gasland

What is the effect of the digital age on our relationship with God nbsp Does technology get in the way of faith nbsp Will Twitter set us on the nbsp path of virtual religion nbsp nbsp Can Facebook lead to a spiritual experience nbsp What about the nbsp need to pray vs our desire to c

Ah yes the famous anti-Catholicism of the New York Times nbsp In fact I was just speaking with someone about that topic today a person convinced that the New York Times has it out for or in for nbsp the Catholic Church nbsp Its nbsp supposed bias is thought to contribute to the paper s nbsp

This wonderful Mass and this wonderful event nbsp was celebrated last Saturday nbsp nbsp As usual Archbishop Dolan a friend of the Society was terrific nbsp Here is a video from Currents H T to The Deacon s Bench nbsp

L rsquo Osservatore Romano the official Vatican newspaper has praised mdash wait for it-- ldquo The Blues Brothers rdquo the 1980 comedy starring John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd as a classic Catholic film As moviegoers of a certain age will remember the film focuses on Jake and Elwood Blu

Well I guess he disagrees with me nbsp nbsp Actually he disagrees with M Cathleen Kaveny professor of theology and law at the University of Notre Dame who wrote nbsp on Dotcommonweal nbsp here about the excommunication of Sister Margaret Mary McBride nbsp He also disagrees with nb

In a Letter to the Editor of The London Tablet Ladislas Orsy S J professor of canon law at Georgetown University has weighed in on the excommunication of Sister Margaret Mary McBride and has declared it based on canon law null and void nbsp The Tablet has graciously provided us with the

The Jesuit Conference which represents the Jesuits in the United States has written the following letter to President Barack Obama and to the members of Congress June 4 2010 We the Provincials of the Society of Jesus in the United States write to ask that you take immediate action to effect co

Tomorrow we mark the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus nbsp nbsp Permit me a meditation on the Sacred Heart and believe it or not the way that this traditional devotion nbsp often derided as outmoded and old-fashioned nbsp can help the Catholic church address some of the factors behind the s