You may have heard of TheDaily the new Ipad paper which was rolled out last week nbsp with great Murdochian fanfare nbsp In any event they asked me to write a short piece on my experiences blogging tweeting and Facebooking for God nbsp The results are here under Following Jesus which I

ldquo You are a water jug carrying within you the living water but if water has lost its ability to quench thirst what use is it rdquo ldquo You are a sign but if the sign is hidden beneath seven foot banks of snow who will know the way to go nbsp Dig out the sign from the wintery snow an

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp A radio remembrance of R Sargent Shriver who passed away at the venerable age of 95 recently caught my attention Shriver was the brother-in-law of President Kennedy having married JFK rsquo s sister Eunice Personifying the ldq

Reflecting a bit on Robert Putnam s warning that churches should resist the urge to act as political power players lest they risk alienating key demographics especially millennials I chuckled a bit to myself when I read two headlines from EWTN s newsfeed yesterday The first article Massachusetts

It is a safe bet that the smartest guy ever to graduate from Jesuit-run Xavier High in Manhattan currently sits on the U S Supreme Court Even as a student his former classmates say Antonin Scalia was scary-smart first in the class of 1953 I was never cool though he once remarked That seems

There are as many paths to God as there are individuals This is the fourth post in a series on Huffington Post nbsp that looks at six of the most well-traveled paths for contemporary believers The previous post explored The Path of Independence This path gets more crowded every year People i

Cambridge MA In case you haven rsquo t noticed we are now entering the 12th annual Interfaith Harmony Week an initiative celebrated sometimes with slightly different names such as Interfaith Awareness Week around the world to notice celebrate and deepen the awareness we have of people of fa

Following up on Kerry rsquo s post about liturgists who are concerned with the new Missal I thought it might be useful to share some practical observations and concerns about its implementation As part of our training for the priesthood every Jesuit scholastic headed toward ordination at my theol

In this week s Signs of the Times liturgists voice their concerns about the translation and implementation of the new Roman Missal Meetings of North American liturgists last month provided a first impression of how well the upcoming introduction of the new Roman Missal is likely to proceed Atte

Cambridge MA As the Churches continue to read the Sermon on the Mount at Sunday Eucharist until the beginning of Lent I will continue the series I started last week Swami Prabhavananda rsquo s reading of the Sermon in The Sermon on the Mount according to Vedanta This Sunday rsquo s portion is b

Shakespeare rsquo s ldquo The Merchant of Venice rdquo with Al Pacino as Shylock has been wildly successful on Broadway with sold-out performances rave reviews and after a January hiatus a month of extended performances starting in February Last evening I went with a friend who had read

A long time ago in a blog far far away hellip I began to discuss the text Verbum Domini the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation of Benedict XVI on the ldquo Word of God in the life and mission of the Church rdquo Many things have intervened since then such as the end of one semester Christmas

This week week we celebrate National Catholic Education Week from January 30 through February 5 Although Valentine s Day is two weeks away you might consider doing something special for someone in your life who works in the field of Catholic education whether this be an elementary school high s

Here in New York as in much of the snowy rest of the United States we have not only been sacked by successive winter storms but are now at least where I live being gently coated in freezing rain One impact on all of us who have care of young children is snow days So far in our public school

The U S bishops and the Catholic Health Association attempted to put difficult disagreements over the past year behind them in a recent series of phone conversations and an exchange of letters in January According to the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops ldquo In response to questions raised a

The Number One movie in the country is about Jesuits and exorcism nbsp Raymond Schroth S J associate editor takes a look at the hit film The Rite starring Anthony Hopkins as the jaded-and-soon-to-be-bedeviled exorcist nbsp nbsp Perhaps the writers made Hopkins a Jesuit because Jesuits

I hope you will read this but suspect many will simply keep scanning It is a sad topic and probably will not evoke the spirited commentary of writings on women priests celibacy the rights of gays or newly discovered evidence of priestly abuse or associated cover-up For the past several years

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp I was asked recently to serve on the advisory board of nbsp California Interfaith Power and Light one of 36 state branches which sponsor as part of a national network religious responses to global warming due to deforestation gross energy inefficiencies glacial meltin

A great piece by John Allen in NCR on the five most common reasons that a candidate for sainthood is fast-tracked nbsp The biggest surprise is how many nbsp have been nbsp expedited since the reforms in the canonization procedures were first introduced nbsp Read his five reasons here