The collected confabulations of Gunter Grass and his children

Michael Cunningham's story of one man's struggle for perpetual youth and beauty

Last year for the Solemnity of All Saints I wrote on the first reading from Revelation 7 to which I referred again in the recent post on ldquo lukewarm rdquo Catholics Recently Fr James Martin drew attention to the saints as he often does in a short video examining the question of who and wh

Here s a good Halloween topic witches and witchcraft An historian at Edinburgh University scotches some myths at the Guardian comment pages nbsp Most witches were executed in the 16th and 17th centuries There were about 50 000 of them A quarter of them were men Julian Goodare warns us against

A reflection from Barnabite priest Umberto Palma Orellana The miners have become a good brand a brand everybody wants to register for their own benefit and exploitation Their lives those too human existences haven rsquo t mattered before they don rsquo t now and won rsquo t in the future eith

Luke includes in his Gospel an account found nowhere else in the Gospel tradition a story which fits well with many of the Lucan themes regarding the value and danger of wealth and possessions ndash not to say that these are not concerns of Jesus himself or not found in the other Gospels just t

Believe it or not I m a member of a theater company the Labyrinth Theater Company who I first got to know when they asked me to help them with a play called The Last Days of Judas Iscariot written by Stephen Adly Guirgis and produced at nbsp New York s nbsp Public Theater in 2004 nbsp In an

nbsp nbsp nbsp The plants in my house that are still alive thrive in an atmosphere of inattention High maintenance plants don rsquo t last long here My plants tend to be more hearty than beautiful They sit in their mismatched pots soaking in sunshine through the windows grateful for the occ

Oct. 31 is the feast of a remarkable Catholic brother, St. Alphonsus Rodríguez, the humble Jesuit porter of Majorca.

One needn rsquo t be interested in painting mining or things British to enjoy ldquo The Pitmen Painters rdquo an often funny and at times ferociously affecting new play on Broadway at the Samuel J Friedman Theater The play was written by Lee Hall whose screenplay and book for ldquo Billy El

I don t usually link to articles that are not available online but these two pieces from The New York Review of Books are very much worthwhile even if you have to hoof it to the library The first is a review of Fintan O Toole s Ship of Fools How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger wh

Now that some of the dust has settled regarding Arizona s harsh immigration law in which police are directed to detain any person suspected of being in the country illegally and who cannot produce papers to prove otherwise NPR has filed a report highlighting the disturbing influence that a for-pro

A nbsp recent visit from my friend the artist Bob Gilroy S J has prompted me to write about a project that is well worth your time nbsp Bob is a Jesuit priest a talented visual artist and longtime spiritual director based at the Campion Renewal Center in Weston Mass nbsp whose work is prob

The Yukpa people of Venezuela call him Brother Ajishama meaning the one who knows the way to the Promised Land The 81-year-old Spanish Jesuit has spent 45 of his 81 years serving them now he is ready to give his life for them There is no greater demonstration of friendship Fr Jose Maria Kort

One of the gallants who put the now infamous beat-down on that askin-fer-it professional agitator from moveon org has been outed by other members of the Tea Party apparently appalled by his liberal use of force in freely expressing his concern for Rand Paul s personal safety The blogosphere is poi

Here s a fun story involving a group of Catholic sisters in Baltimore and what proved to be a very kind donation From the Associated Press Sister Virginia Muller had never heard of shortstop Honus Wagner But she quickly learned the baseball great is a revered figure among collectors pictured

The architect who designed the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona Antoni Gaudi could be beatified on 10 June 2016 on the 90th anniversary of his death say the promoters of his Cause The news comes on the eve of the consecration of the Sagrada Familia as a Basilica on 7 November by Pope Benedict XVI

We hope that regular readers of our blog also check out our other online features including this podcast discussion of Seamus Heaney s new collection of poems Human Chain with Angela O Donnell of Fordham University Also worthwhile Fr Ray Schroth s video commentary on the horrific anti-gay viol