John A. Coleman

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp I had just finished reading Father Gregory Boyle S J rsquo s penetratingly spiritual truly hope-filled and uplifting book Tattoos on the Heart The Power of Boundless Compassion It had made my own

The eight UN Millennial Goals were unveiled with great splash and fanfare in 2000 with 189 UN member states formally endorsing them as a sort of solemn covenant The eight goals encapsulated previously agreed upon targets from a number of special UN sessions on international development With the

I was recently asked to write a ldquo white paper rdquo draft for the California Catholic Bishops for possible voting on the issue of life-sentence without parole for juveniles The United States Supreme Court currently is adjudicating two petitions from incarcerated prisoners from the State of

I am always looking out for good Lenten spiritual reading What I look for especially are books about conversion repentance deeper prayer transformation mdash all core Lenten themes It turns out a Jesuit housemate of mine Dan Kendall S J edited recently some earlier from 1975 lost writi

The last several years have been exceedingly unkind to Scientology In 2007 the Belgian State Prosecution Office announced that it thought the organization should be prosecuted for crime In late October 2009 a French court found Scientology France guilty of severe fraud in ldquo cheating rdquo

I have been musing about what it means to be beginning Ordinary Time for 2010 In one sense the term has a simple liturgical meaning Ordinary Time begins on the Monday after the Second nbsp Sunday of the Year The Baptism of the Lord There is paradoxically no first Sunday in Ordinary Time

I turned from being relatively indifferent to perhaps even a skeptic about global warming into someone who takes its peril quite seriously when I first read Tim Flannery rsquo s 2001 book The Weather Makers How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth Flannery has now