Janelle Peters on praying with the Bible in the Twitterverse

The Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities AJCU has published a list of commencement speakers for Jesuit institutions around the country See the lineup at the AJCU website nbsp

The educator's paradox: enlightenment begins in darkness; wisdom, in mystery.

‘Operation Crimea’ and the reign of Vladimir Putin

ldquo The general security situation in this country is awful rdquo says Msgr Nestor-D sir Nongo-Aziagbia bishop of Bossangoa in the Central African Republic ldquo Terrible rdquo he adds shaking his head sadly nbsp Behind him across the grounds of the archbishop rsquo s residence in Ba

quot The University of Notre Dame is committed to fostering an environment of welcome and mutual respect that is grounded in its Catholic mission quot So says Jack Swarbrick Notre Dame 39 s athletic director in a new video meant to convey support for LGBT athletes at the University nbsp Accor

Cambridge MA There has been a great deal of coverage during the last week about the Black Mass that will occur at Harvard tonight May 12 By tradition at least the Black Mass was and may still be an obscene parody of the Catholic Mass using a consecrated host Today rsquo s Crimson the camp

So it 39 s real The Harvard Extension Cultural Studies Club a student group affiliated with Harvard Extension School nbsp is hosting a black mass Why So they can quot learn and experience the history of different cultural practices quot The quot performance quot says the club quot is pa

In the first entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on Galatians I discussed introductory matters concerning the founding of the churches to the Galatians the situation when Paul wrote to them when the letter might have been written and the type of letters which Paul wrote based on the com

For those who are dedicated readers scholars researchers mdash or just plain bibliophiles mdash welcome news came across the wires May 7th that the New York Public Library has finally decided to shelve pun definitively intended the grandiose ldquo Central Library Plan rdquo It was a plan to r

On May 5 2014 the U S Supreme Court decided in a 5-4 vote that the Town of Greece New York did not violate the First Amendment when it invited local clergy to pray before the opening of town board meetings Significantly all nine justices affirmed the constitutionality of public legislative pr

An insider’s view of the detainees in Guantánamo Bay

Blog posts, podcasts and photos from Senior Editor Kevin Clarke's reporting in the Central African Republic.

If Marcus Aurelius had been a wife and a mother he might have written Jenny Offill rsquo s new novel nbsp Dept of Speculation Every vignette is suffused with well wrought insight and wisdom For example ldquo My daughter breaks both her wrists jumping off of a swing rdquo We take our daughter

The truck lurches and weaves with every rut and gully on the bush trail mdash and there are many of them mdash in slow but steady progress through to the outlying villages around Bossangoa The day before two large lorries broke down repeatedly during the same exercise through these small villages

Strange reports coming out of Harvard or some part of Harvard Apparently some student group affiliated with the Harvard Extension School is hosting a black mass as part of a Satanic ritual It 39 s not clear if this is a joke some bizarre effort at tolerance or a sincere effort at demonic worsh

Over his lifetime, J. F. Powers published dozens of stories and two novels—the first at age 43 (April’s Catholic Book Club selection) and the second at age 71. Powers agonized over his second novel for 25 years. In a sense, Wheat That Springeth Green conveys the anguish of a writer tryin

Does the canonization process include ldquo a kind of church sponsored blasphemy rdquo James Carroll claimed in the Boston Globe that requiring two healing miracles for sainthood ldquo implies that God actively declines to intervene in countless other cases rdquo And this ldquo effectively ma