Here is another homily from Fr Bill O Malley who has an article in this week s America The homily below is for June 19 Holy Trinity Sunday Click here to read Fr O Malley s homily from Pentecost I know you rsquo re all breathless with anticipation for the new liturgical changes that begin next

I had been waiting weeks to write this blog post but it all came crashing down yesterday I wanted to write a blog post on my beloved Vancouver Canucks who have been in the NHL for 40 years and whom I have followed since I was 9 years old when boys follow their heroes with naivet eacute and chil

The feed is not great but you can watch the open-door proceedings of USCCB meeting in Seattle here nbsp H T Grant Gallicho at Commonweal Jim Keane S J

As Turkey s foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu nbsp visited one of the impromptu Syrian refugee camps that have cropped up along the border Syrian children held up a cardboard sign that pretty much says it all We are dying and the world is watching Thousands have fled the Syrian army s pacificati

America reviewing Bridesmaids the hit summer chick flick as that genre has been termed nbsp Yes because Jake Martin SJ nbsp sees in nbsp the comedy nbsp surprising evidence of the value of community nbsp He doesn t see as much evidence in either The Hangover Part II or Something Bor

The story of the two 92-year-old twin Franciscan Brothers from St Bonaventure s in Olean New York who died on the same day has been all over the Internet nbsp But Dan Barry shows the difference between reporting a story and telling one nbsp In a nbsp beautiful article about two beautiful li

In intro journalism class we list the several ldquo news values rdquo mdash those characteristics of an event that make it news For example Celebrity mdash ldquo Prince Marries Roommate rdquo because he rsquo s famous it rsquo s news Or Proximity the local angle in the diocesan week

Who was the Little Flower nbsp And what nbsp does the life of a 19th-century French Carmelite nun cosseted by her parents raised on a diet of the overheated Catholic piety of the time and cloistered for the last few years of her short life have to say to you nbsp Here is a nbsp newly relea

From the Center for FaithJustice this thoughtful article by Kurt Denk S J a Jesuit priest and lawyer nbsp Fr Denk had for a time served as a chaplain at San Quentin Prison in California nbsp The summary of the article follows Jesuit priest and lawyer Kurt Denk asks us to consider what a ne

Sometimes a sad story takes an unexpected turn and ends up offering hope and compels thoughtful reflection I posted yesterday about a parish in Boston that had planned to offer a Mass with a theme of All Are Welcome that was scrapped because of outspoken conservative bloggers Today s Boston Glo

Professor Joseph Trabbic has responded to my comments on his blog post Aquinas and Modern Biblical Exegesis I am honored by such a significant response Reading in the Spirit A Response to John Martens and I will read it carefully before responding nbsp On first reading there is much with whi

The quickly deteriorating conditions in Sudan represent perhaps the most compelling case for an international intervention under the evolving responsibility to protect concept Unfortunately with that idea mdash and the NATO air campaign it inspired mdash bogged down in Libya the hard truth is th

Is it too late for Pentecost Too late for tongues of fire and the rush of wind Never These are the two major physical realities which are described in the Pentecost account in Acts 2 1-11 When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled they were all in one place together And suddenly there came from t

Last week Pope Benedict XVI offered more evidence of his greenish sensibilities calling for more research and development of clean energy options for the future During introductory remarks made at a June 9 presentation of credentials from new ambassadors to the Vatican Pope Benedict commented on

In conjunction with Fr William O Malley s article in the current issue of America we will be posting a few of his homilies to The Good Word this week Fr O Malley is a noted homilist and author who has taught high school students for over forty years You can read some of Fr O Malley s other h

Blink a fun series of short videos on CatholicTV in Boston asked me to film a ten-part series called Ways of Prayer nbsp We move through nbsp An Overview of Prayer nbsp the Rosary Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament the Mass as Prayer Nature Prayer Centering Prayer Lectio Divina Ignat

And now for something completely different Enjoy Tim Reidy

I was able this past weekend to attend a conference at the Monsignor Jerome D Quinn Institute of Biblical Studies at the St Paul Seminary School of Divinity where I also spend a part of my working week The conference The Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church The Catholic Seminary

Certain exclusions apply see your local diocese for details The Boston Globe reports on a Catholic parish in a gay neighborhood of the city that had planned to hold a Mass proclaiming that all are welcome to have its plans scrapped by the archdiocese following complaints from anonymous conservat

I write as a dad to other dads Put down your phones when you re with your children I know how hard it can be to resist the lure of the latest update emanating from your device but is it just me or are fathers given or taking much more cultural permission for ignoring their kids in favor of