Given the number of hits on my piece on Glenn Beck and liberation theology and the number of comments some of them remarkably strong I thought I would offer a little quiz based on a quote just sent by a friend nbsp Who said the following to the Brazilian bishops in 1986 nbsp W e are convi

The students enrolled in the Project Management class at the University of Notre Dame are carrying one less heavy book this semester They ll still have to read the usual textbook Project Management in Practice but only after the electronic version has been downloaded to their new iPads The unive

And you thought your life was full of surprises nbsp This story from Loyola Press s blog People for Others nbsp tales the cake

The American Psychiatric Association is getting closer to putting into use the Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual This massive work defines behavioral symptoms of nearly 300 conditions that it deems to be ldquo psychiatric disorders rdquo Each is coded with a number For one

Cardinal Danneels s spokesman Toon Osaer has posted a statement by the Cardinal s lawyer in the comboxes below my previous post The statement sheds some important light on how Danneels saw the meeting with the abuse victim his uncle the bishop who abused him and their relatives Leaving aside

Writer Nick Hornby High Fidelity About A Boy and musician Ben Folds collaborate with online artists Pomplamoose for a provocative meditation about how we think about life nbsp nbsp If the video does not pop up above click here for the link Jim McDermott SJ

Cambridge MA In part one of this three-part blog I reflected simply on the fact of the September 5 2000 Vatican declaration Dominus Iesus I suggested that this influential document despite its flaws and annoying tone is an important marker of the unity and boundaries of Catholic teaching with

On the eve before talks between Israel and Palestinian leaders in Washington Hamas does its level best to torpedo whatever progress might have been achieved by murdering four civilians including two women one of whom was pregnant Worse Hamas threatens more attacks Haaretz reports The statemen

I don t often correct myself but I think I need to on this occasion What I wrote on the devastating weekend story of how Cardinal Danneels sought to persuade an abuse victim to remain silent was I now realise too sympathetic to the former Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels I say this because my fr

Cambridge MA I heard just yesterday that Raimon Raimundo Panikkar died on August 26 at his home in Tavertet in Spain He was 91 Many will surely write in celebration of Fr Panikkar s long and very productive ministry as a scholar and spiritual master and this brief blog is simply my own initia

ldquo I haven rsquo t opened my emails yet rdquo said a friend one morning A graduate school professor he does his best work in the morning when his mind is fresh Only in the afternoon does he open his numerous emails He realizes that they can be thieves of one rsquo s best hours in terms of

As part of our ongoing partnership with CARA we will be regularly calling attention to their recent findings on In All Things Here you can read about the changing attitudes of Catholic students in the 20 years since the promulgation of the papal encyclical Ex corde ecclesiae Among other things

Water has held a special place in the world right from the start In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth the earth was a formless wasteland and darkness covered the abyss while a mighty wind swept over the waters Soon the fishes filled the waters and the scene was set fo

A graphic look at the Ground Zero Mosque controversy courtesy of Mark A Schmidt

shortest one act play Belgian s Cardinal Godfried Danneels met with a victim of sexual assault now 42 and his uncle-perpetrator Bishop Robert Vangheluwe in early April The bishops spoke freely because they did not understand the conversation was being taped and would not be kept secret as

The British media are today running a story as is the NYT from the weekend s Belgian press that the former Archbishop of Brussels Cardinal Godfried Danneels sought to persuade the victim of abuse by a bishop to stay quiet nbsp On 23 April -- see my post here -- that bishop 73-year-old Roger V

Artists from the Gulf Coast know a thing or two of what Pope Benedict meant when a year ago he rhetorically asked artists in the Sistine Chapel ldquo What is capable of restoring enthusiasm and confidence what can encourage the human spirit to rediscover its path to raise its eyes to the horizon

ldquo What are you working on rdquo One of the staff in the office of the Pauw Wow the Saint Peter rsquo s College student paper was fixed intently on his computer screen A big story ldquo I rsquo m talking to one of my friends rdquo he replied ldquo Great rdquo I said ldquo How

Arthur Koestler was a man of controversy in death as in life.