Ron Hansen reviews Andrew Dubus III’s memoir of his absentee father

In the wake of her husband's death, Joyce Carol Oates struggled with resentment, despair, rage, and guilt.

Both Call It Home Rabbi Daniel E. Polish’s “A Spiritual Home” (4/11) puts in perspective the historical/spiritual roots of Judaism. As the author points out, there is much more than politics at work in Israel; but it appears to me that his argument could equally be made about the P

I wonder if there are some Lady Gaga students and theological aficionados out there who can help parse the significance of her role in contemporary popular culture I am late to the party having been led to Gaga by my undergraduate students who get her symbolic order on a more intuitive level

What do the distinctive spiritualities of Jesus Mary and Joseph have to teach us about our own daily lives nbsp How do their human experiences speak to our human lives nbsp How can the individual lives of each of the members of the Holy Family help us in our Christian journeys nbsp National

I appreciate that you have listened to me for so many days but I want you to walk beside me while I tell you something else Please please join me walk beside me I told you yesterday that Cleopas and I had decided or at least were thinking about walking home today Sunday and that is what we a

Cambridge MA All week while mixing the business of school with the solemn events of Holy Week I have been pondering the existential question ldquo What shall I blog for Holy Week Easter rdquo Given my interreligious commitments the question has become ldquo How does the Resurrection affec

Today is Saturday We just sat on the floor and stayed hidden out of sight and prayed I have never seen so many people crushed in this way I sat without moving but it felt as if I were stumbling falling in the dark We did talk about Jesus but there was such a sense of loss in the room It wa

Michael Gerson has written a much-needed conservative Christian take-down of Ayn Rand up in his column for the Washington post nbsp Ayn Rand rsquo s adult-onset adolescence It rsquo s an appropriate topic during Holy Week nbsp Gerson outlines the conflict between Christianity and Rand rsquo s

I would rather not talk to you today I have no idea what happened no idea what just took place After the meal the Apostles walked with Jesus to the garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives All of the Apostles but one Judas had already left The others said that there was a strange tension

The cage match between the bishops and theologians emerging out of the U S bishops Doctrine Committee s treatment of Fordham Professor Sister Beth Johnson grew more crowded this week The Catholic Theological Society of America has already gone on the record with its critique of the committee s cri

I m filing for next week s America on the world s first Ordinariate which is swelling in these days from 20 members to over 1 000 including 64 priests as former Anglicans are received into the Catholic Church in England and Wales in low-key ceremonies across the nation A whole new chapter in the

For nearly a year it s been a great privilege for me to be one of the members of the In All Things blogging team and I thank America for trusting me with this space I m tremendously grateful for everyone who clicks and reads and especially to those who take the time to offer their views or to sha

Last weekend I caught Robert Redford s new film The Conspirator which uses the case of Mary Surratt a Catholic by the way which the film notes and her complicated involvement with the assassinaton of Abraham Lincoln to draw out some modern-day parallels nbsp John P McCarthy nbsp provides a

Who said the Church was closed to the media Yesterday a newspaper article was approved by the Vatican for inclusion in the Office of Readings the prayer which begins the universal Church s daily liturgy nbsp True the reading for November 4th has only been approved by the Vatican s Congregation

The Twelve Apostles were sent to prepare for a supper in Jerusalem how many times have they shared a table together with Jesus over the years whether they actually had food or not when they had sat down to eat or had known what kind of food he would put on the table Jesus had supplied answers to

I was prepared not to like this nbsp But I did nbsp See what you think nbsp