Robert Bellah has shaped the way in which we think of the roles of religion in modern society.

Those interested in theological matters related to Occupy Wall Street may also be interested in the Sacred Space at the site I have posted some pictures and other commentary here nbsp

We have received news that Dean Brackley SJ a great apostle of social justice and a Jesuit who volunteered to work at the University of Central America in El Salvador nbsp after the martyrdom of the Jesuits there in 1989 has died after a battle with cancer nbsp More will be written about this

Even as he continues to hold on to steady frontrunner status in state and national polls former Massachusetts Governor MittRomney fails to convince voters both in his party and those constituting the crucial independent bloc that he is a human being capable of a range of normal emotions Fueled p

The New York Times is reporting that Kansas City Bishop Robert Finn and the diocese he leads have been indicted by a county grand jury on a charge of failure to report suspected child abuse in the case of a priest who had been accused of taking lewd photographs of young girls nbsp The Times rep

If you plan to be in New York City next week this is sure to be a lively conversation the Fordham University Center on Religion and Culture is sponsoring a panel discussion on faith and political responsibility Faithful Citizenship II Keeping the Faith in a Season of Spin will be held on the L

Did I ever tell you about my friend Lynn Leibovitz We met in Florence I had finished two semesters of theological studies in Rome and after a year of listening to Jesuits lecturing in Italian a year I passed either writing aerograms or crying I decided that I could definitely use more Itali

Through what is a kind of fluke really I am regularly offered two free tickets designated for the press to plays at the Marin Theater Company in Mill Valley in Marin County I had written a review for America of the Jesuit playwright Bill Cain s play Equivocation My review somehow came to t

Luke Hansen s writing may be known to America readers but his day job mdash as the volunteer coordinator at Red Cloud Indian School on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota mdash hasn t been quite so visible However a new special on ABC s 20 20 hopes to shed light on the land and pe

For those of you in the Boston area or with a strong desire to come to Boston quickly a conference on Family and Children in the Patristic nbsp Tradition begins tomorrow October 13-15 at the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline Massachusetts There are scholars from all ove

The Washington Post reports on an Episcopal parish in the Washington DC area that recently made the jump to full communion with the Catholic Church under new guidelines The Rev Mark Lewis awoke early on the last morning of his life as an Anglican priest and dressed in a suit and tie instead of

From Carol Zimmermann at Catholic News Service WASHINGTON CNS -- Since 2006 the U S Catholic bishops Migration and Refugee Services has helped more than 2 700 victims of human trafficking obtain food clothing and access to medical care That service has come to a halt because the agency re

Frankly because I studied in France for a year I sympathize with France rsquo s President Nicolas Sarkozy whose government has passed a law against women wearing the niqab in public The niqab is a total face covering as distinguished from the hijab which refers to the entire head-to-toe garm

Transgendered persons as an emerging minority group are becoming newly visible in the medis nbsp Unfortunately this attention usually arises from the fact nbsp that people are being attacked bullied excluded and even killed nbsp The transgendered population now join homosexual and lesbian i

What would happen if Catholics took the ldquo Occupy Wall Street rdquo model and ldquo applied it to their passion for and grievances with their own church rdquo asks Dr Tom Beaudoin right here on this blog Judging from the passionate comments in response Dr Beaudoin has struck a chord in m

From Mirada Global a look at the surprising similarities between Andean culture and the Christian message La Paz ndash In Andean worldview time is notlinear that is it doesn rsquo t conceive a beginning and an end but the coexistence with the past and the future which takes place in the prese

From HuffingtonPost whose video studios we covet nbsp And for even more wisdom an interview on Duke University s Faith amp Leadership page on Why Faith Leads to Joy along with an excerpt from Between Heaven and Mirth on why religious settings are often so stultifying and what to do abo

You may have read about the controversy surrounding the Family Research Council s Values Voters Summit though isn t safe to assume that all voters vote their values and the claim that Gov Mitt Romney s Mormon faith makes him a member of a non-Christian cult From Politico Texas evangelical le