I grew up in suburban Philadelphia and as a kid in Catholic school Eucharistic adoration was a regular feature of our observance of the liturgical year especially during Lent As a practice adoration has deep historical roots in the church in Philadelphia roots that extend at least as far back a

Ireland s Cloyne Report was released today and it offers another spit-take inducing portrait of a hierarchy in dysfunction well after it could offer any reasonable excuse to be regarding sexual abuse committed by clerics In fact The context of this report differs significantly from the context

You may think Toledo Bishop Leonard Blair s decision to prohibit fundraising for breast cancer-fighting Komen Foundation to be foolish overkill or sound pastoral groundskeeping I don t know But I do find myself wondering what sort of bias is being nurtured over at the Toledo Blade when I stumbled

LONDON There s nothing quite like real news -- a story that sprints out in all directions leaving history gasping to catch up That s true of the scandal unfolding this past week turning on revelations about the Murdoch-owned news empire the illegal and immoral activities of some of its journali

It is a truth universally acknowledged that an academic in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a book And that doesn rsquo t mean a Kindle or an iPad We need books whose pages we can fold whose lines we can mark in whose margins we can correct the author with our own quips That rs

Polygamy next Prominent churchmen have worried that legalizing same sex marriage will lead to accepting polygamy in the future To my mind they are underestimating the unique and innate drive for pair bonding that contributes to equality and unity in a marital relationship nbsp Such mutuality is

Polygamy next nbsp nbsp Prominent churchmen have worried that legalizing same sex marriage will lead to accepting polygamy in the future nbsp nbsp To my mind they are underestimating the unique and innate drive for pair bonding that contributes to equality and unity in a marital relationship

Are leaders born or are they cultivated through education and apprenticeship nbsp In their new book entitled Mother Teresa CEO Unexpected Principles for Practical Leadership Ruma Bose and Lou Faust explore Mother Teresa s leadership of the Missionaries of Charity and offer practical suggestions

In what will surely be challenged as a questionable use of episcopal authority Toledo Bishop Leonard Blair has banned parishes and parochial schools from raising funds for the Susan G Komen Foundation citing concerns that the global anti-cancer giant may someday fund embryonic stem-cell research

The weeks leading up to the Fourth of July holiday weekend were ferociously busy I was finishing a months-long project at work traveling most weekends to see family and friends back home and trying to meet deadlines that were approaching more quickly than I had planned Partly out of sheer mental

Sister Mary Ann Walsh of the USCCB has ten good reasons here

The artwork gracing the walls in Jesuit communities is often restricted to framed posters of famous paintings Caravaggio s Supper at Emmaus presides over the dining room perhaps a copy of Henry Ossawa Tanner s The Annunciation in the chapel It seems that may not be the case at Campion Hall t

Let rsquo s make one thing clear from the beginning nbsp I am not one of those Catholics mdash and there seem to be many mdash who believes that the New York Times is out to destroy the Roman Catholic Church nbsp A member of a journalism family I was taught by my father that the Times was the b

This weekend the Guardian s David Hare published an interview with Rowan Williams the Archbishop of Canterbury nbsp In their wide-ranging conversation Williams touches on the pitfalls of free-market capitalism the insufficiency of logical arguments as conclusive proof for God s existence an

The Rev Terrance W Klein professor of theology St Bonaventure s University nbsp and author of nbsp Vanity Faith nbsp catches up with TNT s hit sci-fi series Falling Skies and finds its take on American culture none too um nbsp alien I recently enjoyed a barbeque at the Connecticut home of

Wisdom of Solomon was written in Greek sometime in the late first century BCE or early first century CE to encourage the Jewish community probably in Alexandria to be confident of their God s governance in a particularly difficult time Today s passage comes in the third part of this book Part I

The data for a new poll on the Bible is up on the Gallup website I am slightly confused by what the poll was attempting to measure as it seems to confuse literal interpretation of the Bible with belief in nbsp the Bible as the actual word of God Here is an excerpt from the accompanying descrip

George Swanson Starling spent most of his adult life in Harlem working as a train porter but the Black American had been raised in the racially segregated South picking fruit for pennies an hour in Florida groves Like many of us George had envisioned a very different life than the one he got

I don rsquo t read on the beach The beach is for long walks and quick plunges into the surf I am at Sea Bright the northernmost town on the Jersey Shore for two weeks and I brought Pat Conroy rsquo s My Reading Life with me perfect company as I sit in the front room or on the balcony overloo

First it was the the market -- the collapse of 2008 then the state -- the MPs expenses scandal Now comes the third great crisis of trust in British institutions this time in the third estate The discovery of the rot at the heart of journalism -- yesterday Rupert Murdoch was forced to shut dow