On Sunday last I had a conversation with a devout Catholic woman 16 years of Catholic schooling niece of a revered deceased Jesuit of the California province nurse at a Veterans Administration hospital communion minister at her parish who was hopping mad at the California bishops for funding a

This surprising story reported by nbsp AP just came across our desk nbsp nbsp A snip The Roman Catholic archbishop of San Salvador opposes reopening the prosecution of Salvadoran officials in the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests the cleric said Sunday nbsp Human rights activists have pu

There are many reasons to admire Abraham Lincoln His ability to bring former political rivals into the Cabinet and to manage their ambitions was one of his most remarkable political accomplishments Whether Lincoln merely wanted to keep his enemies closer than his friends or whether he saw unique p

Here s an editorial from the LA Times on the Vatican s new directive on psychological screening of gay candidates for the priesthood nbsp And before you object to the nbsp idea of a secular paper editorializing on church affairs remember that were it not for The Boston Globe the church would

Dear Prelates and Priests I have a suggestion about how to deal with the election of Barack Obama Keep still and be quiet Father Jay Scott Newman of St Mary rsquo s in Greenville South Carolina was all over the news for suggesting that parishioners who voted for Obama needed to go to confession

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Recruiting Chaplains, Mad Men's Catholic Sensibility

A chaplain explains why he served.

Thomas More returns to Broadway

Dotcom I was most grateful for the article by George M. Anderson, S.J., about my play and DVD about Dorothy Day, “Fool for Christ” (Of Many Things, 11/3), but there was a misprint that I think needs to be noted.The last part of my Web site address was given incorrectly. It should have re

Searching for reasons for the assassination of JFK

A story of murder and forgiveness

Pope Congratulates President-Elect Barack Obama Pope Benedict XVI sent a personal message to President-elect Barack Obama on Nov. 5, congratulating him and offering his prayers for Obama and for all the people of the United States. Federico Lombardi, S.J., the Vatican spokesman, said that because th

Can pastors in the military serve God and government?

Two new books set out to find Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Do ntilde a Teresa de Ahumada y Cepeda who became simply Teresa de Jes uacute s following her midlife conversion had a personality so large and intriguing that it is no surprise that a novelist has chosen this Spanish Carmelite as a character around whom to weave a fictionalized story Yet histori

'My afflictions are newsrosis, hypolitichondria and eccleseitis.'