I am writing from Philadelphia where the Occupy National Gathering began on Saturday and will continue through the 4th of July The purposes of this event a kind of conference supported by many of the Occupy sites in the USA include comparing notes on shared concerns of the various Occupations an

As a parent I am witness daily to the mysteries of my daughter s growing-up and find myself rehearsing memories of my own childhood This is an experience that many parents have Noticing the substantial theological influences from books cartoons and games in my daughter s life has made me

Because popular culture provides so much of the palette for making sense of life today -- including making faith-sense -- especially for recent generations I like to learn about what aspects of pop culture connect with people at influential points in their lives Over the last six months I have be

On Mayday I was in the parks and streets of Manhattan for M1GS the May 1st General Strike a daylong gathering called by a coalition of dozens of labor organizations Like many I was there under many motivations as a participant in Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Faith NYC as a member of the lab

For the New York Times Ginia Bellafante has recently written this article relating the Catholic Worker to Occupy America readers who are interested in these matters should know that Occupy in conjunction with dozens of other organizations dedicated to the equitable sharing of social resources is

Since June 2002 in the printed pages of America magazine and here on its blog such as more recently nbsp here and here I have tried to make occasional theological sense of the unfolding sexual managerial abuse crisis in the U S Catholic Church As someone who works in the area of practical the

Check out this sweet swirling escalation of a tune Look Around the Corner by Quantic and Alice Russell with the Combo B aacute rbaro Thanks to N for the recommendation nbsp As I listen to it I think of the worldly mysticism that seems to be gaining traction among affiliated and u

Last week I was in Berkeley California for the Occupy Faith National Gathering coordinated by the Interfaith Tent at Occupy Oakland I was one of six from Occupy Faith NYC Occupy Wall Street and our delegation was a small part of over 60 conference participants from some fourteen Occupations ar

In January of 2011 on this blog I posted an entry with the title A New Post-Catholic State of Awareness Has Public Discussion of Catholicism Reached a New Moment In that entry I suggested that a new courage for telling the truth about the range of affiliations in and out of Catholicism seems

For those in the New York area David Gibson -- whose respected work as author and journalist many America readers will know -- will be giving a lecture at Fordham this Tuesday the 28th Titled The End of Catholic Politics Gibson s talk will take place at 5pm at Flom Auditorium in the Walsh Libr