We re happy to introduce a new film reviewer whose name will most likely be familiar to many of our readers nbsp Harry Forbes for many years the former director of the U S Catholic Bishops Conference Office for film and broadcasting and whose job required him to review literally thousands of

Poor Rush Limbaugh His buddies kicked him off the team they had assembled to purchase the St Louis Rams Actually poor is one thing that Limbaugh is not at least if we are speaking about money and if you are thinking of buying a professional football team money has ceased being an issue in yo

The queue to see the relics of Saint Therese of Lisieux formed appropriately enough between the Catholic Truth Society Bookstore and the portable fish and chips stand I say ldquo appropriately rdquo because the experience of seeing Therese rsquo s reliquary last Tuesday night at London rsquo s

Readers will recall the name Jack Smith editor of the Catholic Key the diocesan newspaper in Kansas City-St Joseph who launched a vile unsubstantiated and personal attack on Sister Carol Keehan suggesting that her support for health care reform was motivated by money-grubbing acquisitiveness

Shortly after the watershed democratic election of 1994 I was involved in the organisation of the annual meeting of the Conference of Major Religious Superiors of Southern Africa To help us reflect on the recent bitter past we had the good fortune to have emeritus Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town

The second reading for the Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Hebrews 4 14-16 continues directly from last week s second reading and confirms the point I made last week that the fact that Jesus Christ knows our innermost thoughts and all of our deeds is a warning to amend our ways surely but

The controversial comedian Sarah Silverman is known for her special brand of what might be called meta-comedy nbsp nbsp Her funniest bits mock mocking and offer up broad stereotypes to reveal the shallowness of well broad stereotypes nbsp ldquo I don rsquo t care if you think I rsquo m raci

Olympia Snowe the sole Republican Senator to vote for the health care reform bill that passed the Senate Finance Committee now enjoys a virtual veto over the negotiations Democrats in the Senate and the President himself will likely scuttle their better judgment about any policy disagreements in

The Association of Practical Theology APT is the primary professional organization in the United States for practical theologians and for all those interested in the ways that religious and theological studies attune to and are attuned by ecclesial and cultural practices Full disclosure I m o

Not all of her just part of her thigh and foot bones in a gold casket towards the end of a tour of the UK The prison concerned is called Wormwood Scrubs really in west London Press Association reporter Martha Linden writes Around 100 inmates of Wormwood Scrubs prison venerated the relics of t

How odd At the end of a day in which the Guardian newspaper ran a piece by me praising Michael Moore s Catholicism I find myself having to apologize to the documentary-maker for questioning his faith In my post here yesterday I ended by posing a question about something that has been nagging me

Our online Culture section is now featuring nbsp the invaluable Father Robert Lauder s take on two powerful nbsp new films that might have escaped your notice but which might be coming to an indie-movie theater near you As Seen Through these Eyes and Rashevski s Tango nbsp nbsp Here s how h

The Anchoress thinks you should nbsp And she s right James Martin SJ

I cannot tell you how much I have enjoyed paging through this amazing new book written by two deacons of the LA archdiocese called Ascend nbsp Essentially it s an introduction to the Catholic faith for young adults and full disclosure I blurbed it but only because I loved it it s written in

Cambridge MA In the last entry in this blog Mr Murali Manohar offered some very thoughtful and perceptive reflections on interreligious learning definitely worth your reading So please read his remarks before proceeding with this entry Here I take up just a few of his major points First one

US Catholic is launching a survery nbsp of both women religious and other Catholics about the apostolic visitation of women religious The editors of nbsp the magazine wrote to us Since there have been more questions than answers surrounding the visitation we decided to ask Catholics what they tho

NCR has obtained a copy of the USCCB s nbsp proposed document on marriage for their November meeting which you can read nbsp here nbsp Much of the document is taken up with the theology of marriage marriage as a nbsp sacrament as a sign of Christ s love as a symbol of the Trinity and of the c

Much of the discussion about what to do in Afghanistan occurs in front of the backdrop of the Surge in Iraq and its success Indeed over the weekend Sen John McCain repeated the claim that a new Surge is needed in Afghanistan that half-measures will spell defeat and that t here is no way to wi

The London Observer yesterday ran an article on the Catholicism of the documentary-maker Michael Moore whose new film apparently attacks capitalism from a Christian standpoint Moore is a practising Catholic and has put religion at the core of Capitalism A Love Story Alongside the political argum