Tomorrow is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta nbsp Her ministry to the poor was well known during her life nbsp Her ministry to the doubtful the confused the seeker the one in darkness the one who feels distant from God began after her death with the publicat

You might have heard of late about Eminem s new song Love the Way You Lie nbsp Top of the charts for the last five weeks the song presents rap star nbsp Eminem as a guy who cannot seem to break the cycle of violence with the woman he loves -- not unfamiliar territory for the singer who spent

What America isn t edgy enough nbsp nbsp Sufficiently far out on nbsp the margins nbsp Pushing the boundaries nbsp Fringe-y enough nbsp Check it out we nbsp sent Jake Martin SJ one of our Culture writers to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for this report on the increasingly popular comed

Proponents of embryonic stem cell research heartened by an executive order from President Obama which lifted many Bush-era restrictions on federal money for this controversial bio-medical research are facing a setback after a federal court suspended the 2009 executive order Chief Judge Royce C L

A poll released last month by the Public Religion Research Institute sheds light on the impact of religion and the 2008 vote to abolish same-sex marriage rights in California The poll finds that today a slim majority of Roman Catholics 51 support same-sex marriage interestingly that number ju

Pity Opus Dei Just when they ve dampened the fires of the Da Vinci Code they find themselves implicated in an extraordinary story of mafioso murders secret service intrigues and of course our old friends Archbishop Marcinkus and the Vatican Bank To be fair Opus Dei s involvement in the story o

Do you ever wish nbsp that you were done learning That instead of being tested life was easy leisurely Years ago when still a teenager I wanted to start a religion called ldquo Incidental Meditation rdquo or ldquo I M rdquo for short At the heart of the religion was that the teachings wo

An interesting article from CNS highlights the similarities between the backlash against the building of Park 51 and the prejudice of 19th-century Nativists The controversy over plans to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque a couple of blocks away from ground zero in New York is but the late

After many many years of wrangling the story of nbsp which will be familiar to readers of America the new English-language translation of the Roman Missal has finally been approved nbsp This marks the first significant change in the English-language Mass since the Second Vatican Council nbsp

Do you ever wish nbsp that you were done learning That instead of being tested life was easy leisurely Years ago when still a teenager I wanted to start a religion called ldquo Incidental Meditation rdquo or ldquo I M rdquo for short At the heart of the religion was that the teachings wo

Blessed are the peacemakers we Christians are told in our marching orders Too many times we don t recognize individuals as peacemakers until after they have died and we fail to recognize peacemaking efforts from individuals we are accustomed to reading about every day About a week ago I wrote

There has been a lot of talk about the Park51 facility and the purportedly dark and Dr No-ish intentions of its bankrollers and founders The so-called ldquo Ground Zero mosque rdquo is on the verge of becoming this election season rsquo s rhetorical blackhole It rsquo s unclear what comes out

A couple new polls just released are causing quite a bit of eye rolling and aggravation among President Obama rsquo s supporters The numbers show that an increasing percentage of Americans believe the president is Muslim a decreasing amount that he is Christian and a growing plurality who are uns

Next week August 26th to be precise marks what would be the 100th birthday of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta The Albanian-born nun and foundress of the Missionaries of Charity religious order died on Sept 5 1997 and was beatified in Rome on Oct 19 2003 Books and documentaries about her l

Despite his hectic schedule, Alberto understood the need for the balance between prayer and work, striving to be a "contemplative in action."

Manhattan is history A block from where I stood was the Plaza Hotel--Saturday brunches red-jacketed doormen and Eloise Due North stood Central Park Walking west on 56th Street I was fortunate to be heading toward AMERICA House for a visit Once inside a great tradition welcomes you A framed

It s nearly impossible to argue that the Benedictine monks of St Joseph Abbey in Louisiana should not be allowed to sell their simple handmade wooden caskets Unless of course you re a funeral director concerned about your own profits According to CNS Louisiana law allows only licensed funera

A healthy antidote to Scriptural literalism of any sort 

A pastor in Oak Park Ill has apologized to the women and women religious of his parish for the Vatican s insensitive and harsh words nbsp Here is the story from the local newspaper the Journal of Oak Park and River Forest Rev Larry McNally pastor of Ascension Parish in Oak Park couldn t