With Lent nearing completion and Easter almost here my Lenten practice kicks into high gear this weekend slows down over the next few weeks and then ends as I cross the finish line on Divine Mercy Sunday the first Sunday after Easter I began Lent seemingly without any spiritual discipline but

Wondering if there is still such a thing as a labor priest in America MSW at Distinctly Catholic managed to find at least one Now that s how a fella invocates a labor meeting

For those who have been following the public conversation between Fr Roy Bourgeois the well-known peace activist and founder of the School of the Americas Watch and the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers his religious congregation of many years nbsp over his support of women s ordination this lett

Loyola Press has just released the new paperback edition of nbsp A Jesuit Off-Broadway Center Stage with Faith Doubt Forgiveness and More and allowed me to offer nbsp an excerpt from the first chapter nbsp The book tells the story of nbsp six months working as a theological consultant to the

Access to an article by Gerald McDermott from the April 2011 edition of First Things has been posted at the site for the past few weeks It is titled Evangelicals Divided and concerns recent theological fissures breaks or tensions - I cannot decide amongst these terms - concerning the role of Scr

A mainstream movie with mainstream stars about a devout Christian with an overtly Christian message nbsp Helen Hunt and Dennis Quaid star in Soul Surfer a nbsp buzzed-about film opening on Friday nbsp John McCarthy in an online Culture piece takes a look at the movie about a surfer s brush wi

Mitch Pacwa SJ host of EWTN Live interviews the great Jesuit historian John Padberg SJ on the history of the Society of Jesus nbsp Father Padberg director and genearl editor of the Institute of Jesuit Sources has forgotten more about Jesuit history than I know nbsp The show is well worth

London Yesterday in Westminster around 200 Catholic bishops charity directors politicians Lords academics and thinkers gathered under the ponderous title of Renewing a sense of social responsibility to consider how the Church in England and Wales should respond to a new era in the economy an

One of the most fascinating and startling things regarding the teaching on the Church in Matthew 18 the Ecclesial Discourse is how much of it focuses on the nature of Christian leadership as modeled on the child and the treatment of children by the apostles called disciples by Matthew Chapter

Paul Theroux likes trains he has roamed the world and ridden trains and written great books with neat names like Ghost Train to the Eastern Star or The Old Patagonia Express In his upcoming book he brings us a spiritual sense of the meaning of travel To be released in May Tao of Travel Enli

In a blunt lecture on Monday at Marquette University in Milwaukee Wis Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin nbsp made what to my mind is nbsp a stunning admission about the sexual abuse crisis in the church nbsp With perhaps two exceptions he has not encountered a real and unconditional admiss

If you haven t already I hope you ll read Christopher Pramuk s moving article on reproductive loss in the current issue And if you re so moved join the ongoing conversation in the article comments boxes Professor Pramuk has graciously agreed to take part in the discussion For more resources on

Father James Martin on the worst mistake he made working as a young Jesuit among the East African refugees who settled in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya.

From Mirada Global an appreciation of two geniuses of poetry and art Nicol aacute s Guill eacute n and Osvaldo Guayasam iacute n Nicol aacute s Guill eacute n was born in Camaguey Cuba in 1902 while Osvaldo Guayasam iacute n was born in Quito Ecuador in 1919 It isn rsquo t trivial to get

After my post yesterday which mentioned among other things my regret that while in Madrid on 24-25 March I couldn t follow the Courtyard of the Gentiles event at Notre Dame in Paris a friend who lives in the French capital and went to one of the sessions has written me a damning description of th

There will be two major differences between the global interfaith prayer for peace which Pope Benedict has called for in Assisi on 27 October and the two previous ones called by Pope John Paul II in 1986 and 2002 nbsp The first is that the representatives of the different faiths will not actuall

Orbis Books has just brought out a new edition of nbsp This Our Exile A Spiritual Journey with the Refugees of East Africa with a new afterword nbsp They have nbsp given permission to reprint the first chapter of the book as a way of introducing readers to the story of my two years of working w

If you ve been wondering how badly the sex abuse crisis has hurt the bishops ability to speak on any moral ethical challenges in modern civic life listen to the rhetorical bombs being dropped in New Hampshire I know a state that doesn t exactly spring to the fore when contemplating overheated pol