Jerry Filteau of the The National Catholic Reporter reports on a recent statement by the Committee on Doctrine of the US Catholic Bishops characterizing Reiki as superstition and as not compatible with either Christian teaching or scientific evidence The document titled Guidelines for Evaluat

At the risk of trying readers patience I would like to raise a question about the Obama Dame controversy Why is this news I believe it was Richard Gaillardetz who wrote several years ago about the tendency on the Internet toward the online establishment of an ad hoc magisterium preoccupied wi

People began gathering for breakfast at 5 00 this morning though one of my students told me that some undergraduates were on site in rock vigil all night long I don t know how many Fordham folks were gathered but the throng was not more than a few thousand by my completely subjective estimate

This morning some hundred or so workers are milling around the Keating Hall steps and Edwards Parade unloading crates full of electronics and cables men with Good Morning America U2 badges trying to keep some order in the setup as trucks back in beeping with more gear Lots of sites of work

For those who have not yet heard the long-lived ensemble of rock royalty known as U2 are coming to Fordham s Rose Hill campus this Friday for an early-morning concert to be featured on the television show Good Morning America The rumors began earlier this week and were confirmed in an email f

Not of the Washington but of the Los Angeles sort In a few days the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress will set sail yet again with tens of thousands of Catholics and friends on board for music workshops lectures panels liturgy and all manner of Catholic revelry and reverie In the

Please forgive the shameless plug but because I rsquo ve written in America magazine on popular media culture and theology many times over the last decade and since I rsquo ve even let slip a few rock and roll meditations in a mystagogical register on this very blog I thought there would be no ha

Just a note to let people in the New York area know of a very good conference day we have coming up at Fordham titled Ministry to American Catholics and sponsored by the Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education It will take place on Friday 6 February In the morning our discussion

The recent stories in the press about a new level of official recognition that soldiers bring their war traumas back with them and often hurt themselves or others as well as the recent articles in America about military chaplains have put me in mind of my own work with the military In the fall

Today toward the end of the funeral Mass for Avery Dulles at Saint Patrick rsquo s Cathedral after the long procession of priests had filed out the front doors onto Fifth Avenue followed at last by Cardinal Egan there was then a hushed pause A beat or two of empty time and then suddenly from n