There was a certain amount of understandable pride that I experienced when I saw a well-known ministry of my Franciscan province featured in the eminent pages of the most-recent issue of The New Yorker January 20 2014 The brief profile of the ministry and its director appeared in the front ldqu

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

Conference on the impact of Vatican II on women led to the establishment of the new forum.

A rabbi who has known Pope Francis for almost 20 years and counts him as a close personal friend said the pope's May trip to the Holy Land will be a challenging balancing act because of the high expectations of Israelis and Palestinians and of Christians, Jews and Muslims."There are many th

Documents relate to cases involving 30 priests accused of sexual abuse, most before 1988.

In his seminal book Voltaire’s Bastards (1992), John Ralston Saul noted that at the Vienna Conference in 1815, at the end of the Napoleonic era, the leaders of the old continent concluded that the nation-state, born in Westphalia in 1648, had to be re-organized: “inst

The Associated Press is reporting tonight that a document it has obtained indicates that nbsp Pope Benedict XVI defrocked nearly 400 priests over just two years for sexually molesting children According to the report the statistics for 2011 and 2012 quot show a dramatic increase over the 171 priest

In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus says, “It is not what goes into a man’s mouth that makes him impure; it is what comes out of his mouth” (15:2). Violet Weston, the central character in the film August: Osage County has been popping a huge amount of pills into her mouth for

Writing at The Atlantic teacher Andrew Simmons worries that high schools treat middle- and low-income students differently when conveying the reasons for attending college In short Simmons argues that schools encourage upper-income students to see post-secondary learning as a path of intellectual

Antoinette Tuff met an armed intruder with love and models for us the realistic force of nonviolence.

NPR reports that a state judge has struck down Pennsylvania rsquo s voter ID law ruling that it imposes a ldquo substantial threat rdquo to the rights of hundreds of thousands of voters The law had been challenged by a 93-year-old who didn rsquo t have a driver rsquo s license and lacked access

The below reflection was published originally at my old site the precursor site for this blog on February 16 2013 It was one of my first posts for quot The Ignatian Educator quot and was originally titled quot The Ignatian City quot I decided to republish it here for my new America readers

Mexican bishop rebukes government after crackdown on self-defense groups

The annual March for Life takes place today, Jan. 22, in the nation's capital.

When the soul is hurting the instinct, the temptation—the instinctive temptation?—is to reduce those around us to their bodies alone.

Vatican representatives testify before UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.

This year I was blessed with the opportunity to spend the Christmas holidays in the Holy Land something I have always hoped to do thanks to my one year of studies in Cairo Yet going from Egypt to the Kingdom of David struck me as a little odd Didn rsquo t the Holy Family escape from Herod in Be

A new ‘Wait for Godot’ on Broadway affirms Samuel Beckett’s brilliance

After David Weigel ripped it apart quot a strange bit of make-work that offers almost zero insight about politics quot I had to visit the Brookings Institution rsquo s Congressional Moneyball site and it rsquo s even worse than I imagined Sports metaphors are overused in hacky political analys