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

Here s a wonderful story on the Hispanic celebrations of tomorrow s Feast of the Presentation of the Lord aka Candlemas aka Candelaria by David Gonzalez at the New York Times nbsp nbsp Norma Castro laid the familiar figure on the counter before her next to a basket of poblano peppers Then i

Last Thursday was the first day of class for a university course I am teaching on Catholic novelists and I remembered to ask a question that always intrigues me with a new group of students nbsp What one book have you all read nbsp In other words is there any single novel that everyone in the

Recognizing that it s sometimes easier to focus on what can be improved in the church than to highlight what is working I want to follow my post on the Lost conference with something I experienced at the end of weekend the day after the conference ended A friend I met at Fordham is a lay ecc

In the summer of 2009 after years of dialogue between the US Conference of Catholic Bishops Catholic hospitals typically operated by religious orders and labor unions that represent health care workers the three groups issued a joint document on ldquo Respecting the Just Rights of Workers rd

I spent Friday night and much of Saturday at the Lost conference at Fordham University a conference aimed at understanding better the relationship between the Catholic Church and 20-somethings Read my fellow blogger Michael O Loughlin s commentary here I served as moderator of a session on t