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David Gibson author of The Rule of Benedict and The Coming Catholic Church and a regular blogger on Beliefnet and Dotcommonweal has nbsp a provocative piece nbsp on the abortion wars as a political challenge nbsp The full article ran in The Wall Street Journal on Friday Preview Obscu

Fr Roy Bourgeois the prominent Maryknoll priest and tireless human-rights advocate best known for his opposition to the School of the Americas the U S military s school that had trained some foreign military responsible for assassinations in Latin America has found himself in some potential

nbsp Austen Ivereigh s terrific piece below on the pope s upcoming trip to Lourdes reminds us of the need to accept the presence of the supernatural as part of faith nbsp There are many resources on the web about Lourdes for those who are interested in learning more including the official

Robert Giroux the great writer and editor nbsp and publisher of such literary nbsp giants as Flannery O Connor Robert Lowell T S Eliot Virginia Woolf Jack Kerouac and many others has died at the age of 94 nbsp The New York Times had this nbsp moving obituary nbsp on September 6 nbsp He

Here s a stunning development nbsp reported by Catholic News Service nbsp about the popular Marian shrine at Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina which demonstrates the Vatican s continued reluctance about the site nbsp The sanctions are about as severe as can be leveled against a priest sho

Here s the trailer for a new ish hour-long documentary on Dorothy Day which includes something I ve not seen before some filmed footage of Dorothy speaking on poverty nbsp If the full movie is as good as the trailer it s certainly worth the price nbsp More information on the movie can

Really nbsp Beliefnet s got the story and so does The Deacon s Bench here nbsp The information seems to have come from the newly re published biography of Governor Palin nbsp Her Wikipedia entry nbsp also notes her Catholic background and mentions her rebaptism at age 12 in an nbsp A

nbsp In response to an avalanche of responses nbsp regarding her article in America on forgiving pedophile priests Sister Camille D Arienzo sat down with Michael Paulson the religion reporter for The Boston Globe for an interview that ran in this nbsp Sunday s edition of the paper to discu

On NPR And it s not Brad Pitt s nbsp For that see below James Martin SJ

For those of you who enjoyed Mary Doria Russell s bestselling science-fiction novel nbsp The Sparrow about a group of Jesuit scientists nbsp and lay colleagues who discover life on far-off planet with some tragic results comes this bit of casting nbsp news nbsp nbsp Many years ago there we