LINcredible Jeremy Lin has taken NY by storm Before each game he and teammate Landry Fields have a ritual He has been called the Taiwanese Tebow but he is not Tebowing He and Landry pretend they are paging through a book and then raise hands and eyes to heaven They explain that the

I received a call recently asking me for comment on the ongoing disagreements of the Catholic Bishops with the administration over health care coverage for contraception nbsp My interviewer was seeking support for the government rsquo s position and she was surprised to find that so many ldquo pr

How do you teach a twelve year old to pray An intriguing proposal from our friends at The Jesuit Post Have you ever wanted to teach middle school I thought not It rsquo s no easy task to get sixth graders to sit still must less get knowledge in their heads You can imagine my astonishment whe

nbsp Earlier this week the state of Washington became the seventh in the US to legalize gay marriage after the legislature approved a bill that was introduced and ultimately signed by Gov Chris Gregoire Gregoire a Catholic had been an opponent of same-sex marriage for years perhaps for polit

Just posted online For a brief moment Catholics on all sides were united in defense of the freedom of the Catholic Church to define for itself what it means to be Catholic in America They came together to defend the church rsquo s institutions from morally objectionable potentially crippling burd

A fascinating essay in the New York Review of Books chronicles the creation of the King James Bible which just celebrated its 400th anniversary The article by Robert Pogue Harrison is subscriber only but I will provide a short excerpt here which I think is particularly applicable to the debate o

More than 500 Catholic activists from diocesan peace and justice and Catholic Charities offices across the country in Washington this week for the annual Catholic Social Ministry Gathering are on their way this afternoon to Capitol Hill They will be highlighting the domestic and international polic

Richard M Doerflinger associate director of the Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities at the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a clarification on the contraception accommodation The bishops principal objection to the proposal is that the contraception mandate remains in place Ther

Cardinal-designate Timothy M Dolan head of the USCCB and archbishop of New York told John Allen of NCR nbsp that the bishops are not Obama haters despite what some may think nbsp More importantly he stresses a posture of openness and dialogue with respect to the HHS decision nbsp We

I was searching the web for a video which I wanted for class but YouTube was rather sure that I would prefer to watch one entitled ldquo Why I Hate Religion but Love Jesus rdquo Seemed like the sort of thing a college theology prof should take in so I did A couple of weeks later at the end

One of the great things about teaching is learning from students hearing about their adventures and quests into the wider world and perhaps most importantly sharing their sense of helping others and working to make the world a better place One of the students in my Fall 2011 Psychological Testing

From Ciudad Nueva magazine via Mirada Global From pain to suffering doesn rsquo t mean neither progress nor a stage but a change of nature Anthropology determines very well what we human beings have that derives from humanity or animality We certainly share pain with animals but not suffering

Seven years ago today Dorothy Stang an American Sister of Notre Dame de Namur was martyred in the Amazon as a result of her work with the landless poor there When two hired gunmen met her on a muddy path they asked if she was carrying a weapon In reply she took out a Bible and began to recite

Why are so many young women leaving the church Sr Patricia Wittberg addresses this crucial topic in the latest issue of America and we hope to continue the conversation on our Facebook page Why do you think young Catholic women are disaffected If you are a young woman who has left the church w

One family's harrowing journey through the U.S. health care system

The 28 states requiring that contraception coverage be included in prescription drug plans are: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mex