One of 19 U S women s religious orders specifically nbsp identified as the next step in the Vatican s Apostolic Visitation the Adrian Dominican Sisters of Adrian Michigan are being investigated nbsp The story is outlined in this piece from the Detroit Free Press They ve taught legions of De

The Lives of Jack LondonJames L. HaleyBasic Books. $29.95For those who know Jack London only from their high school days, that is, as a writer of supposedly “young-adult” tales like the novel The Call of the Wild or the supreme short story “To Build a Fire,” this riveting bio

nbsp Normally I don t blog about articles in the Culture section in the print edition but I want to draw your attention to an online slide show of the work of Jonathan Alpeyrie a prominent photographer who in December of 2009 visited the remote monastery of Kintsvisi in Georgia nbsp We fit a

Here on one of my favorite shows Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett carried on NPR are two of my favorite Jesuits and two friends George Coyne S J and Guy Consolmagno S J both astronomers working at the Vatican Observatory in Rome and in Tucson nbsp Just one is fun enough two is

The fifth in a series on Huffpost nbsp If only I could experience God then perhaps I could believe That s a refrain of quite a few seekers and agnostics But they may already have experienced God the desire for God is very often a sign of God s call to us In the echo of our longing for the

Cathy Kaveny professor of law and theology at Notre Dame nbsp has weighed in on Dotcommonweal on the controversy surrounding the announcement of the excommunication of nbsp Margaret McBride a Sister of Mercy pictured at right by Bishop Thomas Olmstead of Phoenix for her approval of an abortio

I ll bet you could use one nbsp Here s one in the WSJ today about the Cristo Rey success story something of which we Jesuits are inordinately proud or at least as proud as we re allowed to be On June 10 Cristo Rey High School in East Harlem will graduate all of its 50 seniors All come from f

Sean Cardinal O Malley the archbishop of Boston nbsp has now weighed in at length on the case of the same-sex couple in Hingham Mass whose child was prevented from attending a local Catholic parochial school there and which I blogged about here nbsp Characteristically nbsp Cardinal O Mall

Can we please put an end to stereotyping celibate men and women nbsp Can we stop lumping them all together as hateful and mean-spirited nbsp Can we stop assuming that nbsp they nbsp are all the same nbsp No apparently we cannot nbsp Here is James Carroll a former priest and the author of C

The fourth in a series on Huffington Post Atheists and non-believers probably won t believe this or me but I believe our desire for God comes from God and is one key way that God calls to us Even if you say that these desires are merely biological or psychological phenomena I would say that G