nbsp Ten years ago today that is June 12 1999 along with five other good Jesuit friends they rsquo re good Jesuits and good friends I was ordained to the priesthood during a Mass at church called mdash surprise mdash St Ignatius Loyola in Chestnut Hill Mass right nbsp on the campus

The Obama adminstration yesterday nominated attorney Kenneth Feinberg to the newly created post of compensation czar from which he will help the government as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said rein in pay practices that motivated executives to take excessive risks in pursuit of profit

Praying with the Pope -- nbsp June 2009 -- Missionary Intention nbsp That local Church communities serving areas torn by violence may be supported through the love and concrete signs of nearness offered by Catholics from around the world The generally peaceful elections this year underlined how Sou

Sometimes a headline and a by-line just don rsquo t match Yesterday at Salon com there appeared an article entitled Obama rsquo s poor choice for faith leader written by Frances Kissling the founder of Catholics for Choice Now asking Ms Kissling to assess the choice of a faith leader is a

I heard South African Bishop Kevin Dowling speak to our Saint Ignatius Parish rsquo s adult formation session a week ago Sunday nbsp The parish piggy-backed off his presence at the adjacent University of San Francisco where Dowling was the recipient of an honorary doctorate and served as the comm

From David Gibson s piece on Politics Daily nbsp As usual provocative nbsp What s with Barack Obama and religion Saint Paul famously said he would be all things to all men and women when he was in equal rights mode for the sake of his beliefs That was no mean feat given that the mission

Praying with the Pope June 2009 nbsp nbsp nbsp General Intention Foreign Debt Relief That international efforts to help poorer nations may bring prompt concrete results especially to relieve the crushing burden of foreign debt nbsp With the crash of the Western banking system we have seen

Understanding the general fact of many of us in rock cultures having found secular music to offer practices that resist the smallness of our surroundings -- a finding not yet sufficiently glimpsed in another discipline theology tasked with thinking salvific resistance -- can hardly give the richne

It is election day in Virginia which shares a media market with Washington So this past weekend while watching the Sunday talk shows or the Lakers-Magic game I was bombarded with television spots for the three Democratic candidates for governor This has put me in mind of one of my pet peeves o

Remember The Mission that great 1986 film about eighteenth-century Jesuits in the Paraguayan jungle starring Robert de Niro and Jeremy Irons Its British director Roland Joffe is making a new Catholic drama - about the early life of Opus Dei and its founder St Josemar iacute a Escriv aacute de

Two hundred years ago June 8 nbsp 1809 was the cornerstone laying for St Patrick rsquo s Old Cathedral near Canal Street in what was then uptown nbsp New York City nbsp nbsp nbsp That same day nearby in New York City was the death of Thomas Paine author of Common Sense nbsp And an inte

The Trinity is a response by Christians to the rich mystery of the Divine How to begin to approach it nbsp Four quotes from Elizabeth Johnson rsquo s Quest for the Living God Mapping Frontiers of Theology 202-03 ldquo The experience of salvation coming from God through Jesus in the power of

The President rsquo s speeches in Cairo and Normandy were both remarkable the way his speeches are almost always remarkable The delivery is deft the oratory seems matched to the moment and the orator himself is at once so provocatively different from his predecessors starting with the color of his

This past weekend rsquo s 64th annual convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America in Halifax Nova Scotia took a turn toward the introspective The theme of this year rsquo s convention ldquo Impasse hellip and Beyond rdquo invited this somewhat unusual and unexpected drift The c

The Vatican has condemned the latest round of nuclear testing by North Korea, warning that such acts of aggression threaten “the very survival” of the country’s own people by exacerbating its isolation. • Catholic Relief Services has announced that the agency will focus on hel

Miguel Diaz, 45, is a professor of theology at the College of St. Benedict and St. John's University, both in Collegeville, Minn.

Pope Benedict Visits Israel; Bishops and Politics

Now is the time to make the necessary reforms.