Three favorites: Cardinals Angelo Scola, Peter Turkson and Marc Ouellet

There are a few sure things in the life of an international volunteer.

Clarify ‘Entitlement’“Getting to Work,” by Patricia Ranft (2/18), does a good job puncturing the hoary myth that labor is punishment for expulsion from biblical paradise—the wages of sin. Professor Ranft is convincing in laying out “the theology of work” but

We do not in our countryniche you at corners,crossroads, highway shrines.But in Karen’s face as she talks of her sonwhose pain will not redeem the world;as Marguerita, whose eldest will notsurvive her; in Sylvie, whose childlearned all his letters in his second yearand by age four had been con

President Obama's agenda includes many items on the wish-list of faith-based organizations.

nbsp By now you may have seen our recent editorial which calls for the repeal of the Second Amendment nbsp It seems the Huffington Post noticed it too Reporter Meredith Bennett-Smith spoke with our editor in chief Matt Malone S J about the magazine 39 s motivations and the editorial proces

nbsp Pope Benedict XVI rsquo s announcement on Feb 11 that he will ldquo renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome rdquo stunned the church and set the media scrambling America was no exception we were equally surprised and just as frenzied In the 48 hours after the news broke our editors gave

nbsp The shock of the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI continues to reverberate through the church Reactions to his resignation understandably focus on his declining health and praise the Holy Father rsquo s humility for being able to acknowledge that he is no longer physically up to the task Alt

nbsp If you rsquo re looking for a new spiritual resource for Lent and beyond today is the official quot pub date quot of Together on Retreat Meeting Jesus in Prayer what my publisher and I believe hope is the first-ever e-retreat It uses the most up-to-date technology of the e-book to le

It might be good for the church to live sede vacante for a full year—contemplating an empty seat of power—before electing a new pope.

Highlighting the president rsquo s quot call for sensible steps on gun control quot in his State of the Union address mdash and similar actions by NY Governor Andrew Cuomo and NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg mdash N Y Cardinal Tim Dolan added his voice to those appealing for stricter gun regulation He

Some of you may remember me from The Good Word, where I wrote for over 4 years. I decided to move on a little more than a year ago to begin my own blog Biblejunkies. At Biblejunkies I wanted to focus more on the practice of biblical studies as such and the philosophical, theological and hermeneutical questions that rest behind the practice of biblical studies, making these questions available to a wider online audience. I will continue that blog, but I will also begin blogging again at The Good Word. Some of what I do at Biblejunkies might only be posted there and the same will take place with certain The Good Word blog posts, but I hope to do a lot of cross-posting as well between the two blogs. This happy reunion took place when I was appointed The Word columnist and discussions took place as to how I might connect with the magazine audience online and what shape that online presence might take.

nbsp WOODSTOCK THEOLOGICAL CENTER CLOSES nbsp A Legacy of Forty Years of Tradition and Service Washington D C February 15 2013 nbsp The Jesuit Provincials of Maryland New York and New England along with the other members of the Board of Trustees of the Woodstock Theological Center WTC h

Sometimes the way to understand one story is by way of another The story which we rsquo d all like to understand more fully is the resignation of our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI The story the Church sets before us this First Sunday of Lent is that of Christ rsquo s Temptation Perhaps a story

America talks with the Catholic Candidates

Cambridge MA Recently I commented on the case where the Rev Rob Morris a Missouri Synod Lutheran pastor apologized for participating in an interfaith memorial service after the Sandy Hook massacre Now the Synod has apologized to him as the February 14 New York Times reports Sometimes we thin