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Signs Of the Times
An expert says media distorts John Jay's report as using the "blame Woodstock" explanation for priests' abuse of children.
Signs Of the Times
Reports on the status of U.S.-based religious congregations of women will be sent to the Vatican by the end of the year by the apostolic visitator's study of American religious life.
Theater
There is only secular religion in Tony Kushner's new play, and yet religion it is.
Arts & CultureBooks
A provocative new approach to the Spiritual Exercises
Signs Of the Times
“They have become even stronger, even after the death of Bin Laden," said the outgoing head of Caritas Asia.
Signs Of the Times
On May 25 Australian church leaders joined the global push for the canonization of the U.S. archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.
Letters
Blessed Franklin and Eleanor Constance M. McGovern’s review of Hazel Rowley’s book Franklin and Eleanor, An Extraordinary Marriage (5/16) reminds me that at the beginning of his presidency Franklin Roosevelt told one of the women in his professional life, Frances Perkins, a fellow Episc
Signs Of the Times
Spain's National Court orders the arrest of 20 former Salvadoran military officers for 1989 murders in El Salvador.
In All Things
Cambridge MA I am back in Cambridge ndash 30 degrees cooler than Chicago ndash and want to fulfill yesterday s promise to write a few words about the reason for my week in Hyde Park I was participating in a seminar on theologies of religious pluralism and comparative theology sponsored by the
In All Things
The nbsp archbishop of Dublin was beginning to sniffle He could not get through a story about ldquo a really nasty man rdquo mdash an Irish priest who sexually abused physically tortured and emotionally threatened vulnerable boys mdash without pulling out his handkerchief and wiping his nose
In All Things
Sarah Palin rsquo s twisted family vacation ldquo Let rsquo s load up the PAC-sponsored lsquo Restore America Sarah Palin rsquo luxury bus kids rdquo has taken her from Washington DC up to New Hampshire where she attended a barbeque the same day that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Ro
In All Things
Hyde Park Chicago Perhaps the news is no worse right now than in past weeks perhaps an early summer heat wave here in Chicago where I am participating in an American Academy of Religion seminar on theologies of religious pluralism and comparative theology more on this in a future blog only ma
In All Things
Just posted online a new batch of Signs of the Times stories We ll be posting new SOT items every week over the summer The first item concerns adoption services in the Catholic diocese of Rockford Ill The Diocese of Rockford has announced that its Catholic Charities offices will no longer off
In All Things
A truly scary warning from Moody rsquo s Investor Services was issued yesterday but if the credit rating service hoped to end the brinkmanship over the U S debt ceiling it appears so far to have succeeded only in provoking deeper heel-digging in Congress Moody s said June 2 that ldquo if there
In All Things
You won rsquo t be surprised to discover that we get all kinds of crazy letters here nbsp And I don rsquo t mean simply letters that seem odd or strange or even letters that I don t fully understand mdash I mean crazy nbsp As a Jesuit friend told me last night ldquo No nut like a religious nu
The Good Word
We usually focus on the Visitation Luke 1 39-56 due to the extraordinary meeting not only between Elizabeth and Mary but between Jesus and John both still in the womb It is a nascent meeting of the key players in the culmination of salvation-history Yet it is also important to see this at the
In All Things
At Elizabeth Taylor rsquo s funeral in March the actor Colin Farrell read ldquo The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo rdquo by the English Jesuit priest and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844-1889 The poem was reported to be among the late actress rsquo s favorites nbsp In a special addition to o