Mark s progression of stories shows Jesus carrying out the obedience he understood to be owed to Him who said You are My Son My Beloved on you My favor rests The stories are in the main stories of miracles but the stories often carry other affirmations about Jesus beyond the expression of

A young priest was sent by his Bishop to a parish that had a red light district within its boundaries On his first day in the parish a nun who had worked in the area for many years took him on a tour of her beat the area where all the women-in-prostitution were plying their trade As they

When I read Holland Carter s near rhapsodic review in the August 7th edition of The New York Times of the current exhibit at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture --you will excuse the pun--I knew I had to see that Gian Lorenzo Bernini show or bust

The Gospel for the Memorial of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina priest September 23 2008 is Luke 8 19-21 which I will cite in full The mother of Jesus and his brothers came to him but were unable to join him because of the crowd He was told Your mother and your brothers are standing outside and the

Barack Obama rsquo s convention speech was the last time he had the undivided attention of the American people to make a sustained argument for his candidacy The debates will be critical as everyone agrees But in the meantime he can frame the race by delivering four soundbites that hit on key is

Honor Killings in Pakistan, Downward Spiral in Zimbabwe

Indian Court Urged to Protect Christians The Catholic Church in India has petitioned the country’s Supreme Court to protect Christian lives and property in Orissa State. Archbishop Raphael Cheenath of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar told the Asian church news agency UCA News Sept. 2 that the church decide

One person touches another, and the consequences are far-reaching.

Allan Figueroa Deck on ethnic ministry

What Gandhi and Jesus can teach us

The art of teaching, especially for the rookie, is counterintuitive.

Is Gandhi's dream of religious amity imperiled?

Barack Obama's debt to a Catholic boss

Bruce Springsteen's music touches on the the edge of religious imagery. But will it ever evolve?

How will priests fund their retirement?

Stephen Tipton's 'Public Pulpits,' reviewed

Aviad Kleinberg a professor of history at Tel Aviv University belongs to that not inconsiderable number of contemporary historians who have taken seriously the cult of the saints in the history of Christianity That interest in the saints has been especially energized by Peter Brown rsquo s The Cu

And God Saw That It Was Good As both a scientist and a Christian, I appreciated “Teaching Evolution,” by Paul Cottle (9/15). But there are several important theological aspects of the debate that he and other Christian apologists for evolution seem to ignore. First, a basic tenet of evol