The second reading for the Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Romans 8 9 11-13 speaks of the Spirit-Flesh antithesis yet nbsp it is difficult not to see the specter of Mind-Body dualism hovering over the passage which always winds up as bad news for the body The passage as found in the lectio

Former Governor of Utah and Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman announced his candidacy for president using the same backdrop that Ronald Reagan once chose New York rsquo s Statue of Liberty Michelle Bachmann emphasized her roots in the hometown of her childhood Waterloo Iowa proving yet ag

Former Governor of Utah and Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman announced his candidacy for president using the same backdrop that Ronald Reagan once chose New York rsquo s Statue of Liberty Michelle Bachmann emphasized her roots in the hometown of her childhood Waterloo Iowa proving yet again

From Criterio magazine via Mirada Global a tribute to the late Argentinian writer He would have made it to being a century old if it hadn rsquo t occurred to him to die two months short of his 100th birthday Argentinean writer Ernesto Sabato was born in Rojas a city in the pampa 240 km from Bue

In a not surprising turn of events Catholic News Agency reports that while Cardinal Jose Policarpo s remarks were accurate about the possibility of women priests that they were taken out of context and that the president of Portugal s bishops confernce does not support female ordination From the

Below is a newly surfaced nbsp account of a brief conversation that Dorothy Day the co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement and longtime peace activist now being considered for canonization had with Daniel Marshall a longtime member of the Catholic Worker movement around 1977 a few years bef

Several people have asked whether I might say a bit more about biblical scholar Avaren Ipsen s recent book Sex Working and the Bible which I began to discuss in a recent post so I will go ahead and do so here Ipsen s basic approach is to provide agency for marginalized readers of the Bible not

For any readers interested in a challenging new book about sex workers and the Bible I have put up a post about it here Tom Beaudoin Hastings-on-Hudson NY

The novelist Mary Gordon who has a new book out commented a number of years ago on a disturbing theme in novels by the ldquo great American writers rdquo of the last century mdash Updike Roth Bellow Mailer etc mdash noting that with some exceptions the theme of the American novel was a youn

For the Solemnity of St Peter and St Paul I wanted to write about a man who puts the fear of God in you while he encourages you I have always loved the Apostle Paul even though he scares me a little when I read his letters since I fear he might step off of the page sit me down on the bench nbs

Several years ago I rsquo ll keep this vague I was at a meeting of a group of young Jesuits I rsquo ll keep that vague too who were called upon by their nbsp superiors again vague nbsp to do some important discernment nbsp The question that was put before us was What might be some new ven

John Allen reports over at National Catholic Reporter that a Portuguese Cardinal purportedly stated that he sees no fundamental theological obstacle rdquo to the ordination of women in the Catholic Church Cardinal Jos eacute da Cruz Policarpo told a legal publication that tradition may preclude

The Washington Theological Union is throwing in the towel In an announcement released yesterday WTU reported that it does not have the financial resources to be able to continue offering its academic services to the Church and the community beyond the 2012 - 2013 academic year hat-tip to Heidi

Three years ago I stood about two feet away from Senator Barack Obama as he worked his way through the crowd he had just addressed in the gym at St Peter rsquo s College at the height of the New Jersey primary The rally had started at least an hour late because when the candidate arrived he d

The Boston Globe continues its coverage of the fallout from the canceled All Are Welcome Mass at a parish in the city The latest article talks to Catholics who are gay and lesbian and who choose to remain in the church rather than leave for greener pastures in other denominations nbsp The arti

The annual Catholic Media Convention took place June 21-25 in Pittsburgh PA The convention is a great chance for members of the Catholic press to meet and to exchange ideas It concludes with the presentation of the Catholic Press Awards and I m pleased to announce that this year America received

When Mordechai Lewy Israeli ambassador to the Holy See praised the role of Pope Pius XII in saving Jews during World War II he managed to upset a lot of people -- hardly surprising given the way an entire academic industry has been built on the idea that Pius XII failed to raise his voice agains

In a tentative settlement with the multiple labor unions representing GE workers General Electric has nbsp closed its pension to new hires The news comes just after the United Mineworkers and the Bituminous Coal Operators Association just reached a settlement with the same condition According to