Got a brief reminder this morning nbsp from nbsp Jesuit Refugee Services nbsp about a Jesuit missing in Afghanistan now four months nbsp in the form of a letter to the nbsp teachers and students at a school in Sohadat in western Afghanistan where Father Alexis Prem Kumar was known and is missed It

Humanity is a long way from grasping all the potential of the Internet even in the so-called First World where we are all online 24 7 at least so we rsquo re told In recent years we rsquo ve begun to distinguish between nbsp digital natives younger people who rsquo ve known nothing but the digit

Vietnam rsquo s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said his meeting with Pope Francis in the Vatican on Saturday October 18 ldquo will present an opportunity for both sides to enhance mutual understanding thus strengthening the relationship between Viet Nam and the Holy See rdquo The meeting he sa

Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Vienna, one of the Catholic Church's best known cardinal-theologians, said the Catholic Church must hold together truth and mercy, even if it is criticized for its attempt.The cardinal, editor of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the son of divorce

The extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family must put greater focus on the beauty of the Christian vision of marriage and not let an approach of "welcoming" and mercy override the church's duty to call people to turn away from sin, according to a number of reports from the synod

The tug-of-war at the Vatican over calls for the Catholic Church to be more open to gays and cohabiting couples intensified on Oct. 16 as conservative bishops sought to rein in or renounce draft language they feared might condone lifestyles not in accord with church teachings.The lobbying at the two

Working-group reports counteract what he characterizes as a misleading interim text.

No hand-holding during 'Our Father' in Diocese of Fort Worth

Known chiefly for 'Humanae Vitae,' Paul was also a reformer, bridge-builder

Boston College has opened a new Center for Teaching Excellence that attempts to combine innovative pedagogy with the best of Jesuit education The latest Boston College Chronicle reports Housed on the second floor of O rsquo Neill Library the CTE brings together existing resources in academic techn

Right now a lot of work is being done behind the scenes at the synod of bishops in the Vatican as a team of eleven synod fathers assisted by expert staff sift through the hundreds of amendments and additions to the synod rsquo s interim-Report on the family and begin drafting its Final Report Giv

Proposed changes highlight 'importance of the witness of sacrificial, loving families today'

'Responsibility to protect' must be part of 'rule of law,' he says

Democrats and Republicans seek to tie global crises to their midterm opponents.

Criteria and eligibility for the $25,000 George W. Hunt prize for Catholic literary arts

The synod is on the home stretch The drafting of the Final Report begins tomorrow Oct 16 The finished text will be presented to the plenary assembly on Saturday morning Oct 18 and voted on that afternoon There is a sense of great expectation even some anxiety as participants wait to read t

'Teach Me to Be Generous,' by Anthony Andreassi

'National Catholic Reporter at Fifty,' by Arthur Jones

'Beyond the University,' by Michael S. Roth