After hearing this homily recommended by no less than six people unbidden over the last few days I post nbsp it forthwith nbsp nbsp Here is Archbishop Timothy Dolan s homily on the anniversary of the birth of Dorothy Day nbsp He is speaking at St Joseph s Church in Greenwich Village in New

Cambridge MA I am not sure if readers appreciate hearing about events at Harvard but I cannot help returning once again to the manner in which my ldquo new rdquo life at Harvard mdash as professor and now as Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions mdash keeps opening up for

Austen Ivereigh has just drawn our attention at In All Things to the publication of Verbum Domini He writes the post-synodal apostolic exhortation Verbum Domini is the most important Catholic church document on Scripture since the Second Vatican Council s groundbreaking Dogmatic Constitution on

Just after one Synod on the Middle East the results of the previous one are published The post-synodal apostolic exhortation Verbum Domini is the most important Catholic church document on Scripture since the Second Vatican Council s groundbreaking Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation kno

When I was leaving Barcelona for the airport last Monday there was a vigorous discussion on the taxi s radio about whether the nuns who cleaned the altar at last Sunday s consecration of the Sagrada Familia gave the wrong image - or for some an accurate image - about the place of women in the Chur

On November 11th the Feast of St Martin of Tours is celebrated Sulpicius Severus who wrote the biography of the fourth-century monk notes the time young Martin was returning from military exercises wearing armor simple cloak and sword A beggar asked for Martin s help in the freezing cold Ma

nbsp CNN covers the ongoing controversy in the Minnesota Catholic community surrounding the distribution of 400 000 DVDs to the local faithful by Archbishop John C Nienstedt Financed by the Knights of Columbus and anonymous donors the DVDs offer a strong reminder that the Catholic Church oppose

Within the first nbsp few minute of his primetime interview on NBC former president George W Bush seemed to nbsp have already startled Matt Lauer nbsp nbsp President Bush recounted that after his mother Barbara miscarried a child she showed the infant to her teenage son nbsp ldquo Her

Thanks to the Jesuit Web site Mirada Global select articles from America are now available in Spanish You can browse them here Mirada Global has also translated these articles into Portugese to switch languages click on the flag-colored icons in the upper right hand corner of the article page T

An interesting pairing of stories in today s New York Times First a profile of Cathleen P Black the newly appointed chancellor of the New York City school system A highly accomplished executive at Hearst Magazines she launched O Oprah s very successful monthly Black is a product of Chicago C

Capuchins in Switzerland whose numbers are diminishing are seeking some help from the classifieds to help fill their ranks The BBC reports The Capuchin order says it is looking for professional single men like bankers or lawyers aged 22 to 35 to join its dwindling ranks The Capuchin order -

Jesuit playwright Bill Cain S J has penned a new and searingly powerful play Just a year after his earlier successful play about the gun powder plot Equivocation see my review Cain portrays in his new play 9 Circles a character Daniel Reeves as a disturbed 19-year old snarled in the web o

Judging the success of a papal visit is never a scientific exercise But there are certain criteria was the Pope listened to or ignored Did people turn out Did the media give it good coverage Did words and actions go together Were there moments which made people sit up Some visits however wo

What happened to the Democrats emphasis on reaching out to the religious left as they did in 2008 nbsp That s what David Gibson at Politics Daily wants to know Of the many reasons cited for the Election Day shellacking administered by Republicans to President Obama and the Democrats perhaps

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I ve arrived back in London to find that five Anglican bishops -- three serving and two retired -- have announced that they will be joining the Catholic Church next year via the ordinariate scheme - and presumably bringing priests and lay people in their tow The Daily Telegraph estimates that aroun

Josepmaria Tarragona is one of the world s leading experts on the architect of the Sagrada Familia Antoni Gaudi and one of the founders of the association which is promoting Gaudi s sainthood I sat down with him over coffee this morning after visiting the Basilica with Tarragona and an Italian fi

ldquo A catastrophe rdquo is how Samir Sumaida rsquo ie Iraq rsquo s ambassador to the United States described the Oct 31 attack on Baghdad rsquo s Syriac Catholic Cathedral Fifty-two were killed along with six attackers and 78 were wounded when Iraqi Security Forces stormed church offices wh

From Mirada Global Where Vargas Llosa truly shows us his streak as a writer and especially an essayist is in his study of his much admired Flaubert through Madame Bovary with a beautiful title The Perpetual Orgy Beyond the distance in years 115 years Vargas Llosa considered Flaubert as the