The readings at Mass the past few weeks have been some of my favorite of the year especially the selections from the Old Testament We 39 ve heard on 8 31 from Jeremiah 20 7 quot O Lord thou hast deceived me and I was deceived quot and yesterday from Isaiah 55 8-9 quot For my thou

Sister May Ann Walsh on LCWR controversy

If you happened to pull yourself away from all the Cupich-to-Chicago news this weekend last night someone in my community called his appointment the most important moment in the American Church since quot Humane Vitae quot so I rsquo m going to say he didn rsquo t you might have seen reference

The latest (Un)Conventional Wisdom for Robert D. Sullivan

I have been on many papal trips to foreign countries over the past thirty years and have experienced some profoundly moving and faith-filled moments on several of them but I had never before seen a Pope so overcome with emotion that he wept But that is what I witnessed on Sunday evening September

Pope Francis drew enthusiastic and prolonged applause when in his homily at mass in Mother Teresa Square in Tirana the capital of Albania attended by some 300 000 people mdash most of them Catholics but also very many Orthodox and Muslims mdash he greeted them saying ldquo May peace be in your

Chicagoans received the leader they were seeking in Spokane Bishop.

Cambridge MA I am just returned from Loyola University in Chicago where I was graciously hosted for two days by Mark Bosco SJ Director of the Joan and Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage I met with doctoral students for a long lunch that had to do with a range of topics in

For the first time since 2000 the child poverty rate has declined.

Describing himself as ldquo beyond surprised rdquo by his appointment to the Archdiocese of Chicago Spokane Bishop Blase Cupich pledged to work with people of faith to ldquo serve the common good rdquo and continue efforts to promote healing in a church community wounded by the sex abuse crisis

Pope Francis has given a new direction to the American Church by appointing the bishop of Spokane, Blase Joseph Cupich, 65, as the ninth archbishop of Chicago.The archbishop-elect is a highly-talented leader, a pastor with vision, together with long, varied and successful pastoral and administrative

Bishop Blase Cupich the newly appointed archbishop of Chicago is a longtime contributor to America nbsp Readers of the magazine and our website will know him for his many pastoral thoughtful and forthright articles that have appeared over the years nbsp Here a few from recent years with some

While in my Jesuit training I spent three years teaching high school at Red Cloud Indian School on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwest South Dakota You 39 ve probably heard of Pine Ridge the New York Times and Washington Post love to send reporters out for week-long jaunts after which

Pope Francis on Saturday will name Bishop Blase Cupich of Spokane Wash a prelate closely identified with the Catholic Church rsquo s progressive wing to be the next archbishop of Chicago according to news reports and multiple church sources It is the pontiff rsquo s most important U S appointm

American bishops were returning to their dioceses after a nine-day pilgrimage to the Holy Land with a stronger resolve to advocate for peace and to urge the U.S. government to take a leadership role in ushering Israelis and Palestinians toward peace, a member of the delegation said."Framed by P

Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, the new president of the Vatican Observatory Foundation, has no doubt that life exists elsewhere in the universe and that when humanity discovers it, the news will come as no big surprise. He suggested that the likely discovery—whether next month or a millennium

In the latest edition of the The Boston College nbsp Chronicle BC 39 s publication for faculty and staff Sean Smith reports on the newly created Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies The Institute under the direction of Fr Casey Beaumier nbsp S J will serve as quot a locus for courses wor

Like almost every other diocese in the United States, the Archdiocese of New York is undergoing a serious and daring refashioning of our beloved Catholic elementary schools. Since 1727, when the Ursuline Sisters of New Orleans opened the first Catholic grade school in what would become the United St

Pope Francis is going to Albania on Sunday Sept 21 It is his first visit to a European country and he has chosen to go to the only majority Muslim country on the periphery of the old continent where Christians and Muslims who suffered under communism now live together in harmony and have formed

Scot bishops hope Catholics join public debate about future after independence vote