Greg Boyle S J founder of Homeboy Industries and author of Tattoos on the Heart which we reviewed here nbsp in our piece Hope for Homies was interviewed on May 20 on NPR s Fresh Air with Terry Gross Back in April he was also a guest on the America podcast As John Coleman S J repor

Today rsquo s front-page story in The New York Times Prospective Catholic Priests Face Sexuality Hurdles by Paul Vitello about the exclusion and weeding out of gay men from seminaries and religious formation houses made for depressing reading nbsp Why depressing nbsp Several reasons First

nbsp The Rev John Meier professor of New Testament at Notre Dame nbsp is one of my heroes nbsp Over the past few years I ve read each of the volumes of his indispensable A Marginal Jew nbsp a multivolume work still rolling out nbsp on the historical Jesus nbsp If you want to kn

It isn rsquo t every day that I come upon a word that I don rsquo t know nbsp Not that I rsquo m some sort of super-genius or a wordsmith like the late William Safire or even a crossword puzzle maven who finishes the Sunday Times rsquo puzzle in ink nbsp I can barely finish it in pencil nb

An unusually long astute nbsp and searching pastoral letter from Mark Coleridge archbishop of Canberra and Goulborn in Australia on sexual abuse nbsp He lists several factors among others behind the abuse Oslash nbsp One factor was a poor understanding and communication of the Church rsqu

We were able to snag a preview copy of the new HBO drama The Special Relationship airing nbsp this Saturday which stars Michael Sheen as again Tony Blair and Dennnis Quaid as Bill Clinton nbsp The show looks at the complicated political and personal relationship between the two with a stand

Grant Gallicho over at Dotcommonweal--in response to Bill Donohue s having apparently convinced himself that the sex abuse crisis is about gay priests--provides a master class in analyzing the John Jay study data Yet Donohue thinks that because 81 percent of the victims were male the real cause wa

One of our favorite new film reviewers is John Anderson who has already appeared several times in our Culture section online and in print and reviews regularly for the New York Times Arts amp Leisure Section and Variety His review of Ridley Scott s new film Robin Hood starring Russell Crowe

The following is the text of a letter sent to members of Congress on May 19 from the USCCB on the topic nbsp of the Employment Nondiscrimination Act ENDA and in relation to that same-sex marriage May 19 2010 Dear Member of Congress We write to you regarding the Employment Nondiscrimination

In a provocative op-ed this morning in the New York Times the Dalai Lama speaks of his 1968 encounter with Thomas Merton and the need for religions to highlight what unites us nbsp Interestingly Merton is often nbsp criticized by some Catholics for not being sufficiently Catholic towards the