Just posted to our Web site Robert J Nogosek C S C recalls the early days of Vatican II and a crucial moment that set the tone for the rest of the Council For the most part the large American hierarchy had arrived out of duty and with no agenda of their own Our bishops were used to confo

The folks at Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life have created an interactive graphic that is easy to parse and fun to use that allows unrepentant political geeks to track candidate Obama and Romney s weekly standing in specific Christian denominations broken down even to frequency of worship atte

Since ldquo redistribution rdquo is in the news these days I thought it might be valuable to offer some passages from Benedict XVI rsquo s 2009 encyclical Caritas in Veritate on the theme nbsp He uses the term 8 times nbsp The basic concept of redistribution is accepted as moral obligation to

Cambridge MA I was pleased to receive a copy the other day of a new book by Roger Haight our esteemed and ever-creative fellow Jesuit educator theologian and in recent years insightful writer in the field of spirituality Christian Spirituality for Seekers Reflections on the Spiritual Exerci

Afterward when the world was exploding around him he felt annoyed with himself for having forgotten the name of the BBC reporter who told him that his old life was over and a new darker existence was about to begin She called him at home on his private line without explaining how she got the n

Graham Greene had a yen for dangerous places and his search for evidence of the rotten spot of the human heart took him to Vietnam Africa and in 1939 to Mexico The persecution of the church had cooled but he quickly learned to hate the place largely because of the hate he saw there He recall

Six things to remember as we approach Election Day 1 The stakes are high but we rsquo ll be okay Scary music sensational quotes and apoplectic narrators invade our television sets each night warning of the destruction and utter hell that Obama or Romney will unleash on America should he win

At nbsp an academic conference in Rome on Tuesday Karen L King a church historian at Harvard Divinity School presented a finding that according to some reports threatened to overturn what we know about Jesus as well as the tradition of priestly celibacy She identified a small fragment of fou

Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput was in the news this week after nbsp a Denver protege was elevated to a national position at the U S C C B and after he joined with a few other notable conservative bishops in NOT endorsing Mitt Romney for president while finding some things to like about Paul

After my first few weeks of classes teaching new undergraduate students I am reminded once again as I always am at the beginning of each school year of what an awesome privilege it is to have the opportunity to invite students through the study of theology to reflect more deeply on God themsel

This isn rsquo t from a secret video it s from the untranscribed portion of Ryan rsquo s 2005 speech at the Atlas Society rsquo s ldquo Celebration of Ayn Rand rdquo nbsp It fits well with the Romney video because it makes clear that middle class entitlements ldquo so called defined benefit p

Cardinal Martini the former archbishop of Milan died last August 31st at the age of 85 from the consequences of Parkinson rsquo s disease Before being sent to Milan as archbishop by Blessed John Paul II Martini was a Jesuit priest a revered biblical scholar a professor at the Biblicum and the

nbsp Our Jesuit parish in San Francisco is renewing and re-writing its mission statement Our present mission statement is way too long over two pages and mingles without clarity actual and operative goals and what are still just aspirations Even though the mission statement is found on our w

I saw THE video last night see below after I got home from work and my first reaction was what s the big deal I didn t hear much that I hadn t already heard from the candidate in the subtext of his previous public declarations and nothing he said seemed likely to disturb his base If anything I

We are very happy to have this essay on Paul Thomas Anderson s epic The Master from our reviewer John Anderson The film opened in limited release on Friday and will be showing nationwide starting this weekend Attending one of the many sold-out shows of The Master directed by Paul Thomas Ande

Philadelphia rsquo s Archbishop Charles Chaput while not quite explicitly endorsing the Romney Ryan ticket suggests that Catholics nbsp may have no other choice this November In an interview with John Allen Chaput said I certainly can rsquo t vote for somebody who rsquo s either pro-choice or p

On a night when the Packers took on the Bears last Thursday evening I found myself in Milwaukee speaking to a crowd of 450 friends of the Wisconsin Jesuits about the state of electoral politics in the U S The invitation came from the Jesuit Partnership Council a lay group that garners suppo

When is an embargoed media event not an embargoed media event Practically speaking in the era of smart-phones and mobile communication that would appear to be any and all of them The much-anticipated meeting of the minds between Stephen Colbert and N Y Cardinal Timothy Dolan at Fordham Universit