James Martin, S.J.

From the Associated Press Catholic nuns are urging Congress to pass President Barack Obama s health care plan in an unusual public break with bishops who say it would subsidize abortion Some 60 leaders of religious orders representing 59 000 Catholic nuns Wednesday sent lawmakers a letter urging

I can write this because I m Irish Or more precisely half-Irish My dad s family hails from County Wexford if you re curious Anyway here goes Put St Patrick back in St Patrick s Day Now I m not saying that you shouldn t fish around in your closet for your favorite Irish sweater on March

These have been dark days for the church universal and I feel very discouraged about the news nbsp in Ireland and Germany which seems a repeat of Boston in 2002 nbsp That is why these words from Kieran Conry the bishop of Arundel and Brighton in the U K were so bracing nbsp Hearing a bishop

Carolyn Martin Buscarino full disclosure in the words of Darth Vader nbsp You have a sister nbsp reminds readers that NBC s critically acclaimed new show nbsp Parenthood is not simply a spin-off of the 1989 hit movie starring Steve Martin and Mary Steenburgen it s also the second time arou

Since so many of our blogposts lately have thanks to recent nbsp events nbsp dealt with homosexuality same-sex marriage and so on here s a gay Catholic speaking about what it means to be one nbsp Andrew Sullivan author former editor of The New Republic and blogger on The Daily Dish at Pri

nbsp As Tom Beaudoin mentioned in his post below the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress begins this week and will attract over 40 000 Catholics to the Anaheim Convention Center for Masses workshops lectures and–my guiltiest pleasure–spending my limited stipend on all the new Cat

nbsp As a native and in my heart current Philadelphian I am totally biased about the new film that Kerry Weber has reviewed The Art of the Steal about the highly controversial move of the little-known-but-now-much-more-well-known Barnes Foundation a small museum in Merion Pa in

Expressing our desires brings us into a closer relationship with God Otherwise it would be like never telling a friend your innermost thoughts Your friend would remain distant When we tell God our desires our relationship to God deepens Desire is a primary way that God leads people to discove

Archbishop Charles nbsp Chaput of Denver has weighed in on the decision of the Catholic elementary school in Boulder part of nbsp the Denver archdiocese nbsp that has refused readmission to the child of a lesbian couple and about which we blogged here nbsp This was posted on the archdiocesan we

Good deeds at Loyola High in Los Angeles nbsp Woulda been nice if they mentioned the motivation for all those good deeds–gee let s see maybe it has something to do with the fact that the school has a beautiful chapel that the students seem to be gee praying that one guy has a photo of