Cambridge MA I have never had great sympathy for Pat Robertson and his evangelical slant on the Gospel and Christian life In part it is a matter of cultural differences mdash I am a Jesuit in Cambridge at Harvard after all mdash and also a matter of what seems to be a rather different exp

Pope Benedict XVI s message for today s World Day of Communications nbsp encourages us to nbsp use every means of communications to spread the Gospel nbsp Amen nbsp The spread of multimedia communications and its rich menu of options might make us think it sufficient simply to be present on t

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp ldquo When a person is in extreme necessity he has the right to supply himself with what he needs out the riches of others rdquo nbsp The Church in the Modern World 69 nbsp We hear the word ldquo looting rdquo used to

Three remarkable images came together for me as I celebrated Mass today on 22 January the 37th anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision legalizing abortion in the U S nbsp nbsp The bishops advised priests on this day to celebrate a Mass for Peace and Justice and ldquo pray for the full restorat

In Chapter 3 Luke presented a traditional story about what occurred around the time of Jesus baptism this story in the main agrees with what we read nbsp Matthew and Mark nbsp But it is Luke who returns for a moment to that coming of the Spirit upon Jesus in order to explain a purpose for tha

Brother nbsp Jim Boynton SJ pictured right the former vocation director of the Detroit Province of the Society of Jesus nbsp full disclosure a good nbsp friend recently started after finishing up his nbsp vocation work nbsp a new assignment in November nbsp with Jesuit Refugee and Migran

Pierre Panet mgr williamsonby labanlieuesex Bishop Richard Williamson the Society of St Pius X bishop and famous nbsp for his comments on the Holocaust nbsp has said astonishingly that the discussions between the Society of St Pius X and the Vatican are a dialogue of the deaf nbsp

I am sure that it was not the intent of the five members of the conservative majority of the Supreme Court to throw President Obama a softball In deciding to overturn the ban on corporate and labor union funding in political campaigns they were too busy focusing on how best to address a long stand

Commenting on the coverage by the media of the crisis in Haiti here on NET the network of the Brooklyn Diocese nbsp On the one hand one the other hand is here

The special election of Massachusetts Republican State Senator Scott Brown appears to doom the latest Congressional effort to broaden health services in America If history is any guide it may be a decade before anyone tries again to rationalize America s health delivery service offering effective

I have been musing about what it means to be beginning Ordinary Time for 2010 In one sense the term has a simple liturgical meaning Ordinary Time begins on the Monday after the Second nbsp Sunday of the Year The Baptism of the Lord There is paradoxically no first Sunday in Ordinary Time

I have been musing about what it means to be beginning Ordinary Time for 2010 In one sense the term has a simple liturgical meaning Ordinary Time begins on the Monday after the Second nbsp Sunday of the Year The Baptism of the Lord There is paradoxically no first Sunday in Ordinary Time

John Rivera of Catholic Relief Services spoke with America today about the agency s relief efforts and its plans for helping to rebuild the country following last week s earthquake You can listen to our conversation here Tim Reidy

As someone who spent most of his childhood summers well two weeks of them every August at the Jersey Shore and as The New Yorker points out no one ever says Jersey Shore it s either the Shore or the Jersey Shore I lament this bizarre nbsp series nbsp now coming to the close of its fi

There was a common theme among White House operatives and liberal commentators yesterday David Axelrod appearing on MSNBC promised the President would continue fighting to address the anxieties felt by middle class voters Spokesman Robert Gibbs said the results in the special election in Massach

This good news was sent to us from the Ignatian Pro-Life Net- work led by US Jesuits Students from Jesuit universities and high schools from across the country will gather in DC this week for the annual lsquo March for Life rsquo there they will pray sing chant and march in support of the unb

All of us are called to be saints as the Second Vatican Council reminded us in nbsp its use of the term the universal call to holiness Holiness is not just the duty of a few said Mother Teresa but of nbsp everyone nbsp We do this nbsp by being loving charitable and devout in our lives no ma

Fascinating story by Edward Rothstein he of protean mind and nbsp catholic interests who pens the Ideas section in The New York Times about nbsp the exhibition at the Library of Congress of a marvelous map It was nbsp drawn by the great Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci in 1602 Readers of this b