To hear God, we need to find the silence in the center of the storm.

A proposal to protect a minority

Last night I finally saw David Fincher s highly touted new film The Social Network and nbsp it s extraordinary nbsp I ve always been a fan of Fincher director of Fight Club The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and one of the great overlooked movies of the last ten years Zodiac nbsp nb

Today October 9 for the first time nbsp nbsp we can celebrate the optional feast of nbsp BLESSED nbsp John Henry Cardinal Newman 21 February 1801 nbsp ndash 11 August 1890 nbsp nbsp He converted to Catholicisim on this day in 1845 nbsp Prolific writer and possibly future Doctor of the

ldquo Go show yourselves to the priests rdquo is a request that the healed lepers go to the ones who in Jewish society authenticate cures from leprosy nbsp The priest at the Jerusalem Temple does not cure he declares for the knowledge of all citizens that a person is cured of leprosy nbsp

The night train glided over the Mississippi River from Wisconsin into Minnesota and as usual it was running late I hoped a cab was waiting for me for the final 40 miles of the journey but when I had made my reservation the clerk told me the cab would not wait if the train was more than a little

You will recall that presidential candidate Barack Obama once in famously said ldquo Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not rdquo The response was predictable liberals were furious conservatives were nauseous a

A great video from the Jesuits Chicago Province on the Jesuit vocation and ordination to the priesthood nbsp Go Forth and Set the World on Fire from Chicago and Detroit Jesuits on Vimeo

More details of the connection between Blessed Mary MacKillop s excommunication and the sisters reporting of sexual abuse nbsp This time the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart MacKillop s order weigh in on the story nbsp From CNS The religious congregation co-founded by Blessed Mary

I wanted to take this opportunity to invite any interested readers who find themselves in the Twin Cities area on October 18th to attend my Archbishop Ireland Memorial Lecture The Child in the Family of God This lecture if free and open to the public and will be based upon research found in Let

From the Irish Echo today on an American Jesuit s work for justice The Rev Joseph Mulligan is the kind of person who can see the up side and the down side of a situation It rsquo s a quality that has helped him in the 24 years he rsquo s worked as a pastor in Nicaragua He rsquo s had to deal wit

Over breakfast Tuesday morning I was reading the newspaper and alighted on a story about an anti-Borat film by a director from Kazakhstan who is out to lampoon the comedian Sacha Baron Cohen s infamous Borat and restore a sense of honor to many Kazakhs that was taken away by Cohen s film Halfway

Has David Letterman been hanging out with Bread for the World s David Beckmann Maybe the Daves were switched by mischievous CBS executives Who can say but after apparently going on a lengthy rant about one of the Seven Deadlies that is particularly popular within U S borders while poor Rachel Ra

The Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary is a celebration of prayer and in particular for thanksgiving of the naval victory over the Turks at the battle of Lepanto on October 7 1571 According to catholicculture org ldquo The feast of Our Lady of the Rosary was instituted to honor Mary for the Chri

Over at the American Spectator writer Mark Tooley takes to task the Episcopal bishops of the United States for promoting the notion that impenetrable national borders may immorally block access to basic human rights such as employment health care food education and other necessities and that t

Fr Jack Collins a Paulist priest asks passersby what they know about the saints and the answer is almost nothing at all nbsp It s from Bustedhalo com s series You Don t Know Jack nbsp There s one guy at the end who seems to know a little but he looks rather shady James Martin SJ

The priest who was widely quoted here and here and here as nbsp stating that part of the reason nbsp for the 1870 excommunication of the soon-to-be-canonized Blessed Mary MacKillop was her participation in raising nbsp questions about nbsp a sexually abusive priest now says he was misquoted nbsp

The word respect comes from a Latin verb meaning to look at so this October is naturally a time to look at life and as Christians discern ways to cherish and promote life on this Earth From the countless brochures being handed out in Catholic churches across the United States this October--the