The battle over liturgical text translation that heated up last year is but the latest in a long series of acrimonious debate about words and their meanings and implications for different groups of people Something similar happened in the UK nearly 400 years ago From The Guardian Except of cours

Following this morning s publication by the bishops of England and Wales of a detailed Q amp A about the forthcoming Ordinariate - see previous post -- I sat down with the bishops conference secretary-general Fr Marcus Stock pictured here with Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster for a disc

Before or on Saturday when three former Anglican bishops including John Broadhurst pictured are ordained Catholic priests the Vatican will publish a Decree formally establishing a Personal Ordinariate for England and Wales -- the world s first By Pentecost there are expected to be at least 50

In the dazed aftermath of the mayhem in Tucson there has been much digital ink spilled measuring out the blame for the attack on the indiscriminate rhetoric of America s permanent campaign culture as if specific percentages of culpability could be affixed to the loose and unpleasant lips of a Glenn

A particularly good video on the Jesuits or rather four of them who speak about the work of all of them at Georgetown University Jesuits at Georgetown from Georgetown College on Vimeo

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp I finally got around to reading the spiritual classic The Cloud of Unknowing Over the years from time to time I dipped into it but had never read it carefully contemplatively I was moved to do so by seeing a new translation of the classic by Carmen Acevedo Butche

This is part of a continuing series on How to Succeed in College Click on the author s name above for previous posts The first semester is now history Friendships have been found lost and found again Some mdash but not enough mdash books have been read nbsp Masses have been missed but spi

This is part of a continuing series on How to Succeed in College Click on the author s name above for previous posts The first semester is now history Friendships have been found lost and found again Some mdash but not enough mdash books have been read nbsp Masses have been missed but spi

How do I find God nbsp That question marks the starting point for all seekers But surprisingly many books on spirituality often downplay or ignore them Some writers assume you already believe in God that you have already found God or that God is already part of your life But it is somewhat r

Deval Patrick and Lincoln Chafee were sworn in as governors of Massachusetts and Rhode Island respectively last week and how they chose to commemorate a certain aspect of their inaugurations is especially interesting In Massachusetts Gov Patrick attended a morning prayer service at Bosto

The baptism of Jesus is the beginning of his ministry as all of the Synoptic Gospels Matthew 3 13-17 Luke 3 21-23 Mark 1 9-15 and Acts 10 37-38 demonstrate This is the point at which Jesus is called both to begin and to fulfill his mission One of the major questions must be quite simply why

I am currently reading and inspired and challenged by Mary Gail Frawley-O Dea s remarkable psychoanalytic study of the Catholic abuse crisis Perversion of Power Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church Vanderbilt University Press 2007 Many America readers will recall that Frawley-O Dea was select

All eyes will be properly set on South Sudan in the coming days as voters in the South participate in a referendum that will likely mean the succession of Christian traditional South Sudan from the Muslim North Here s a recent editorial An alert from M eacute decins Sans Fronti egrave res nbsp pa

Our excellent discussion nbsp on nbsp standardized tests and evaluating educational systems in foreign countries got me to thinking about the quality of teaching both in the United States in general and in our Catholic school systems in particular In the U S A George Bush has been left behind an

The story of Ted Williams a golden voiced homeless man from Columbus Ohio has captured the imagination and compassion of the nation Discovered by a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch panhandling by the side of the road Williams became an overnight YouTube sensation after he demonstrated his uni

As the baby boom generation retires and worries about the viability of Social Security worsen the U S federal government is keeping an eye on the number of young people defined as those under age 20 The latest government estimate for the last decade shows that the number of U S young people wou

A short clip on NPR this morning discussed a new edition of Mark Twain rsquo s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn put out by NewSouth Books that will replace the ldquo n-word rdquo with ldquo slave rdquo Apparently the former term has decreased readership due to censorship in public schools an

The world is very different now For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life -John F Kennedy Inaugural Speech January 20 1961 With these words John F Kennedy encapsulated the dichotomy of the modern age we have mastered the

Messy Jesus Blog a new blog run by Sr Julia Walsh FSPA nbsp and her friends has a guest blog from Sr Sarah Hennessey reflecting on the Baptism of Jesus The entry Segues looks at the reality of transitions in our lives Liturgically now is a moment of segues from the nativity of Epiphany t

Just when we thought reality television couldn t become any more terrifying than Sarah Palin s Alaska Discovery announced it is partnering with the Catholic Church to create a series about exorcism and demonic possession From Entertainment Weekly The Exorcist Files will recreate stories of re