Here is an article from ThinkingFaith the online journal of the British Jesuits about Pope Benedict s comments on condoms and AIDS written by someone who knows what he s talking about--Michael Czerny SJ director of the African Jesuit AIDS Network nbsp Here s Father Czerny The Church u

A strange fun tidbit the alignment of Venus and Mercury relative to Earth today creates a very slight upward gravitational pull which is actually just enough to be sensed Many will feel a certain lightness in their step if you get on a scale your weight will be slightly less nbsp And the real

In response to the nbsp ongoing controversy over the University of Notre Dame rsquo s invitation to President Barack Obama to deliver this year rsquo s commencement address Hugh W Cleary C S C superior general of the Congregation of the Holy Cross has written an open letter to the president

When I ride the subway to work in the morning usually the announcements of the train conductor are either just-the-facts-ma rsquo am basics or incoherent grumbles nbsp But every once in a while if we catch just the right train we straphangers are greeted by a quiet steady voice somehow both

Our plane touched down in Peru late at night so on the bus ride to Canto Grande the neighborhood in which we spent our spring break I was able to see only the outline of the mountains against the black sky scattered with some light bulbs ascending up their slopes It wasn rsquo t until the hot m

It rsquo s cherry blossom time in Washington DC and as blooms sprout everywhere I rsquo m reminded how Lent is like the blossoms Lent just happens No longer do we need search for something to ldquo give up rdquo Lent is and it draws us into more conscious Christian behavior As Lent goes alon

It was refreshing to see President Barack Obama employ some tough love with the automobile industry yesterday warning Chrysler and GM that the clock is ticking on their re-structuring plans and sacking G Richard Wagoner Jr as CEO at GM After all if we taxpayers are footing the bill for keepi

The Society of Jesus in Australia runs a free online magazine like America called Eureka Street which covers affairs both local to Australia and international nbsp Fr Andrew Hamilton SJ is their consulting editor and a theologian teaching at the United Faculty of Theology in Melbourne nbsp

General Intention Farmers and World Hunger That our Lord may bless farmers with abundant harvests and sensitize the richer nations to respond to the ravages of hunger throughout the world We are frequently told that there is sufficient food in the world to feed everyone The problem is that nbsp

Last week Australian news program ldquo The 7 30 Report rdquo had an extensive interview with Australian counterinsurgency expert David Kilcullen Kilcullen has been an important advisor to both the Bush and Obama administrations on military policy in Iraq and Afghanistan and is considered one

Tomorrow leading Senators will hold a press conference with groups ranging from Human Rights Watch to the Chamber of Commerce to announce a renewed effort to lift or at least ameliorate the worst restrictions of the boycott of Cuba Catholics should applaud this effort When the economic boycott an

President Obama said he would be happy to avoid ethical disputes if alternatives to embryonic stem-cell research turn out to be equally promising.

The events of the Seder and the form and meaning of Passover can be a very real part of the events of Holy Week and of the central story of the Christian tradition.

A Lenten reflection on The Mocking of Christ

Science and Ideology; A Face by Any Other Name

'What are our moral obligations as disciples of a tortured God?'

Realpolitik I am a Venezuelan missionary priest working in the United States, and I make frequent visits to my home country because of my ministry. I deeply agree with your editorial on Venezuela (“A Future With Mr. Chávez,” 3/16). I would like your readers to focus their attentio

A new biography of Flannery O'Connor, reviewed

The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life criticized a hasty public declaration of the excommunication of the girls mother and doctors.