John A. Coleman

I had occasion recently to read two books by Donal Dorr almost back to back One is a new edition widely revised and updated of his classic 1982 text Option for the Poor The second was a book entitled Spirituality Our Deepest Heart s Desire The Columba Press 2008 The two prompted me to t

nbsp I recently saw the excellent documentary film Bully which I found both quite absorbing and equally disturbing It documents several victims of bullying in mostly rural school settings I agreed with several of the leading film critics I checked out on the web site Rotten Tomatoes that the

Last week was a very hard one for me First I reeled from reading for the umpteenth time over a twenty year period Vatican attempts to tame the good sisters in a document seemingly aimed at dessicating The Leadership Conference of Religious Women Demands were made that the American nuns org

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp I saw the other night a truly superb production of Othello The Moor of Venice at the Marin Theater Company in Mill Valley It was that company s first venture in forty-five years to mount a Shakespeare play The artistic director Jasson Minadakis had told his Othe

I went last week to The California Museum in Sacramento with a passel of Jesuits from the University of San Francisco on a rented bus to see finally an exhibition about American nuns I had heard so much about The exhibition Women and Spirit had been assembled and mounted through the Leaders

I have to deliver a lecture next week in Minnesota on Catholic social thought on the environment a topic dear to me Checking the weather reports for that area I have noticed a high unseasonal warmth But I know of course that climate is not weather We can have overall global warming or c

nbsp nbsp nbsp I have followed carefully the work of Mark Lynas on environmental issues for some time I remember from his 2004 book High Tide The Truth About Our Climate Crisis a telling juxtaposition of photographs with one Lynas father a geologist took in the early 1930 s of a glacier

nbsp nbsp nbsp The thirty-second annual Paul Wattson Lecture named after the founder of the Graymoor Friars was held Feb 27 at the University of San Francisco The Wattson lectures on whose board I serve always stress issues of ecumenism to honor the man who also inaugurated the annual we