If the budget were in the hands of the public rather than in the hands of the president and Congress what would the man and woman on the street choose to cut According to a survey conducted by the PEW Research Center for the People amp the Press Feb 2-7 the four most popular spending cuts

Last week I wrote about soldier suicides and other articles and blogs in America simultaneously were focusing on what we as a church can do to support and keep our young people in the church So it seems a natural follow-up to focus on what the Church can do to provide ministry belonging and fell

By now you rsquo ve probably heard about the video in which an unseen man and woman ask a clinic manager at a New Jersey Planned Parenthood clinic for advice They want to know how to obtain medical care and abortions for underage prostitutes without getting into trouble with the law The clinic ma

Rocco Palma walks us through the sorry story emerging out of Phillie after a devastating grand jury report and the implications of today s announcement from Cardinal Rigali at Whispers in the Loggia Over the six days since a second Philadelphia grand jury released a damning report that charged four

Check out this lively and free-wheeling interview with Tom Beaudoin one of our esteemed bloggers nbsp on the 20something blog Millennial Catholic on the theological underpinnings of rock and you could say the rockological underpinnings of theology complete with clips from some cool rock vid

At the end of the last post on Verbum Domini I asked ldquo How to convince them people today that reality is actually found in Scripture How to convince people that nature is not simply cruel and purposeless and that winning is not found in the nbsp one who dies with the most toys Benedict to

Over at Politics Daily Dave Gibson tries to unravel with as straight a face as he can manage the sorry tale of Father Thomas Euteneuer the charismatic leader of Human Life International whose fall from grace has been rapid and spectacular Father Tom s side gig as roving exorcist apparently got

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Last night I attended an excellent presentation about Spirituality and Parenting hosted by Krista Tippett host of the public radio show On Being formerly Speaking of Faith Tippett rsquo s guest was

Happy Feast of St Claude la Colombi egrave re 1641-1682 the spiritual director of St Margaret Mary Alocoque who had received the visions of the Sacred Heart in the Visitation convent at Paray-le-Monial in France When few in her convent trusted her experiences and she was reaching a point of

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp I was moved to read in America Father Anthony Ruff s objections to the new translations for the missal Like many I suspect the majority of parish priests I am not terribly nbsp enthusiastic about this so-called reform It seems to me more a kind of nbsp nbsp

The recent Fordham Conference brought to everyone s attention the divergence of young people s lives from church attendance and Catholic beliefs Reading through the comments section of different blogs here suggests many different hypotheses and it is interesting that a common theme is lack of conne

Commenting on the legacy of coverup and abuse emerging out of the mess in Philadelphia The New York Times calls for a suspension of the statue of limitations for sex abuse claims nbsp These are not the first accusations against the Philadelphia Archdiocese A blistering grand-jury report in 2005

Is protesting outside a place of worship an acceptable way to express yourself I ve been considering this question today after reading the news of a group in Chicago marched in front of Holy Name Cathedral over the weekend to make Cardinal Francis George aware that they disapprove of his campaign ag

With all the hoopla over the new but poorly named Confession app it s more accurately described as an examination of conscience app but that sounds much duller to journalists it would be easy to overlook some other fine Catholic apps nbsp Jack McLain a Jesuit priest and self-confessed t

New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan blasted as ludicrous an attorney s claim that his former diocese in Milwaukee moved 130 million to avoid paying sex abuse settlements See more at MSNBC

In our Signs of the Times this week Bill McGarvey provides an overview of the provocative weekend conference on 20-something Catholics sponsored by the Francis and Ann Curran Center for Catholic nbsp Studies and the Fordham Center for nbsp Religion and Culture last month entitled Twentysomething

According to the Church Times AN ldquo Ordinariate of Postulants rdquo has been set up by the diocese of Peru in the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone to host a growing number of Roman Catholic priests who are keen to join the Anglican Church In contrast to the situa shy tion in England wh