Thanks to Gary Boelhower for his excellent reading of his Foley award winning poem Jacob s Ladder The annual prize is given in honor of William T Foley M D Enjoy

Gerald J Beyer a professor of theology at St Joseph s University and an expert on solidarity offers an introduction to the Catholic notions of subsidiarity and solidarity in this response to the budget plan proposed by Republican Rep Paul Ryan The U S Conference of Catholic Bishops has rightl

From Andrea Tornielli of La Stampa via Mirada Global nbsp It looks like one of the destinies that Benedict XVI the theologian turned Pope at the age of 78 is similar to that of his predecessor Paul VI who appointed him Archbishop of Munich creating him cardinal in 1977- is that of being cr

May 28 2012 is our liturgy and design issue and in our culture section Michael E DeSanctis of Gannon Unversity looks at the trend toward bulding new Catholic churches using elements of traditional design You can read Professor Gannon s article here And be sure to check out the slideshow that ac

From Joe Simmons S J over at The Jesuit Post Is Facebook dying nbsp If it died would you miss it I asked my students these questions a few weeks ago in class after I read the piece ldquo Is Facebook Making Us Lonely rdquo by Stephen Marche in the May issue of The Atlantic nbsp Tim O r

Fr Jim Martin pays tribute to the legacy of women religious since Vatican II nbsp

The editors raise a number of questions regarding the Vatican s censure of the Leadership Council of Women Religious In the wake of the Vatican rsquo s doctrinal assessment of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious with many others we offer our support to the sisters Ten years after the e

From Mirada Global an essay from Colombia on the need for a new ethical framework for the 21st century Nowadays we live according to the rules of a consumerist neo-liberal system which dominates the techno-scientific society with its false assertion that our planets possesses both biotic and a

From Mirada Global an essay from Colombia on the need for a new ethical framework for the 21st century Nowadays we live according to the rules of a consumerist neo-liberal system which dominates the techno-scientific society with its false assertion that our planets possesses both biotic and a

Just posted to our site a Web only reflection from Bishop Gerald F Kicanas who accompanied the pope on his recent trip to Cuba The demise of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s caused great collateral damage in Cuba With Soviet subsidies gone so much fell into disrepair so many became des