General Intention Word of God be better known That the Word of God may be better known accepted and lived as the one true source of freedom and joy There are some Christians who know the Bible backwards and yet are unhappy They can give you chapter and verse and quote long passages by heart and

I almost feel sorry for Deal Hudson His world is crashing down or at least that is the impression one garners from reading his post of a few days back about the presence of two princes of the Church at the obsequies for Sen Kennedy and the almost simultaneous resignation of Scranton rsquo s Bisho

Ouch nbsp The new issue of the nbsp Chronicle of Higher Education has a nbsp brutal critique of Google s controversial online library project less because of its oft-criticized intellectual property grab than for its incredibly shabby fact-checking nbsp A quick look at some of the more obvious

Two regional directors of the Legionaries of Christ -- which is not quite the same as their Director General -- have apologised to the sexual abuse victims of the organisation s founder Fr Marcial Maciel Degollado and say that the Legion is on a long road of healing and reconciliation with those

Jim Fisher is a professor of history at Fordham University and author of the forethcoming On The Irish Waterfront In the latest video produced by americamagazine org Jim reports from the banks of the Hudson River in New York City where he tells the story of the Jesuit labor priests and the making

The editor of a widely-read Italian daily newspaper owned by the bishops has resigned after a week of vitriolic attacks on him by powerful relatives and allies of Silvio Berlusconi the erratic authoritarian 72-year-old premier Dino Boffo s crime was to have criticised in the pages of Avvenire B

In Cardinal Sean O rsquo Malley rsquo s Blog entry On Senator Kennedy rsquo s Funeral one line stood out for me our task is to build a civilization of love This has ever been the task of the Church especially when teaching hard truths that run counter to the tenor of the culture and the politi

Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City Kansas and Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City Missouri issued a joint pastoral letter on health care reform yesterday The text has caused quite a bit of controversy already because it deviates so starkly from the statements coming from the Bishops rsquo Co

Boston rsquo s Cardinal Sean O rsquo Malley usually puts up his weekly blog entry on Friday afternoon But Wednesday night he put up his thoughts about the funeral for Sen Kennedy and the controversy his own participation caused You can read the Cardinal rsquo s reflections here

Washington rsquo s Archbishop Donald Wuerl is confronting the City Council rsquo s push to legalize same-sex marriage He sent a letter to his clergy re-iterating the Church rsquo s position on the uniqueness and importance of traditional marriage gave a set of interviews and is joining hands with

What do you get when you cross a nbsp top-flight theologian with one of the summer s hottest movies nbsp This provocative review of the sci-fi hit District 9 by Fr Robert Barron now on our online Culture section nbsp The new movie about a ragtag band of lost malnourished aliens nbsp who in

George Will has a provocative article in this morning rsquo s Washington Post in which he says it is time to get out of Afghanistan The article is a response to the arrival in Washington of a report from Gen Stanley McChrystal sent to Afghanistan by President Obama to assess the situation and mak

Relations between the Church and the disgraced Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi are fast dropping below zero Scheduled talks with Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone -- the Pope s number two -- have been cancelled following extraordinary attacks by Il Giornale owned by Berlusconi s brother Paolo on the ed

Tired of controversy nbsp How about something as Monty Python used to say completely different nbsp Here goes Webster Bull runs a company called Memoirs Unlimited which helps authors write personal and private family memoirs nbsp In 1988 he and his wife started a company called Commonweal

Troubling scenes in a northern Spanish village on the route to Santiago de Compostela whose 46 inhabitants have driven out Benedictine monks following a dispute over the restoration of the village church The ABC newspaper has the story The details of the saga -- the monks want to make nbsp chang

From the Associated Press story on Bishop Martino s resignation this morning at a news conference where he was accompanied by Cardinal Justin Rigali the archbishop of Philadelphia nbsp and Bishop John Doherty Martino s auxiliary For some time now there has not been a clear consensus among th

Years ago as a teenager I used to listen to the music of Larry Norman perhaps the first of the Jesus rockers Norman now deceased has been the source of much controversy in the Christian rock world including an unflattering portrait in a recent documentary film One thing that could not be sai

The Church is always her best at a funeral a priest once said to me and those true words echoed in my memory as I watched the funeral of Sen Ted Kennedy The Catholic funeral Mass is so beautiful not least because it is so familiar not really different from other Masses In the face of grief