As Jesus says What goes around comes around nbsp Or at least he should have said it Here s something that has nbsp just about knocked me over in the past few days nbsp A few years ago I wrote a nbsp brief memoir called In Good Company which told the story of a move from the corporate worl

Sr Mary Ann Walsh RSM nbsp is the tireless and talented director of media relations for the USCCB who also writes the USCCB media blog nbsp When someone of her prominence starts to wonder about some of the aspects the Apostolic Visitation you should take notice nbsp Here s an excerpt Then

Budd Schulberg the famed author of What Makes Sammy Run and the screenplay for On the Waterfront passed away yesterday at the age of 92 Jim Fisher professor of Catholic studies at Fordham University and author of the upcoming book On the Irish Waterfront offers an appreciation of Budd s li

Cardinal Francis George hit the nail on the head in his speech to the Knights of Columbus convention yesterday calling for renewed efforts at binding up the unity of the faithful A Catholic way of life is based on assent to revealed truth and obedience to appointed pastors both of which create t

I always remember the Feast of the Transfiguration for my oldest child was born on August 6 1988 August 6 the date on which we celebrate the Transfiguration became the date that my life was changed I became a parent In many ways of course there is no comparison between my experience which

Over the last three years America has published a number of insightful articles on the U S health care system including ldquo Healing Health Care rdquo by Guy Clifton ldquo Then There Was One rdquo by Daniel Sulmasy ldquo The Financing of Health Care rdquo and ldquo The True Cost of Care

The evangelists have recorded many of the remarkable things Jesus did in his public life they are astounding for their powers and revealing about about Jesus being and nbsp about his empathy with and sympathy for others nbsp Jesus miracles and teaching are considered by the evangelists as nothi

We now know there is an additional perk to becoming President In addition to being really really powerful living in a beautiful home with 24-hour everything a limo Air Force One and Camp David once you are retired you get to go to North Korea President Bill Clinton wrapped up his voyage yes

St. Vianney spent upwards of 12 to 13 hours a day in the confessional. I once mentioned that in a lecture in a large parish and one young man immediately raised his hand and said, “Why, what did he do?”

With three complicated Congressional proposals almost on the drawing board and special interest lobbyists strong-arming elected officials even during their August recess it is easy to throw up one rsquo s hands on health care and cling to one rsquo s employee-sponsored health insurance that is if

News from CNS on the Apostolic Visitation of women s religious orders in the US details of the questionnaire to be sent to the orders with questions on almost every aspect of the nbsp women s nbsp life nbsp identity understanding of religious life governance effectiveness of the order s st

Rep Earl Blumenauer from Oregon suddenly finds himself in the media spotlight because of a provision he inserted into the health care legislation that allows Medicare to pay for consultations between doctors and patients about end of life care It does not mandate such consultations nor in any way

I love the theatre and have been attending Broadway plays for decades mdash I rsquo m partial to musicals mdash and can name a string of favorites but last weekend I was nbsp ldquo blown away rdquo as a certain generation might phrase it during a performance of ldquo South Pacific rdquo at t

Political junkies like me have added the forthcoming book The Battle for America 2008 The Story of an Extraordinary Election by Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson to our reading list The extensive excerpt that appeared in the Washington Post yesterday whetted the appetite and I learned two things that

In addition to giving Obama a copy of his latest encyclical, the pope also presented a copy of a recent Vatican document on biomedical ethics.

In Saecula Saeculorum Re the article by Thomas G. Casey, S.J., suggesting we replace Latin with English as the official language of the church (“Ave atque Vale,” 6/8): While I may be biased as a student of the classics, I think that Latin holds a significant place in the Catholic Church

The recent disclosure that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was developing a program to track down and kill individual Al Qaeda leaders has re-awakened legal and ethical questions about assassination as a tool of national policy. The program had been kept hidden from Congress until this spring,