Kerry Weber

I lived for one year in Fort Defiance Ariz on the Navajo reservation about a half hour south of Navajo NM where Sister Marguerite Bartz was killed last November During my time on the reservation I often interacted with a Sister of the Blessed Sacrament who like Bartz strove for peace and j

Over at Catholic Digest Editor in Chief Dan Connors recently wrote a thought-provoking article in which he expresses a frustration with clericalism arguing that the laity needs to look at the possibility of its own complicity in the abuse scandal The crisis and who is to blame is as he says in

When I was a kid I really really wanted an Astronaut Barbie She seemed fully capable of taking on the final frontier despite the impracticality of her shiny pink-and-silver space suit and her not-quite-airtight helmet These days with NASA s manned space program coming to an end the plastic ico

A recent dialogue between Bill Keller the executive editor for The New York Times and Scott Appleby history professor at the University of Notre Dame started out on the wrong foot Their exchange began with comments made by Appleby made during an interview for On Point a program aired on NPR st

From the New York Times The board of St Vincent Catholic Medical Centers voted on Tuesday night to close its flagship hospital in Greenwich Village ending its long struggle to stay afloat despite millions of dollars of debt The exact timing for the closing of St Vincent rsquo s Hospital Manhatt

According to a 2004 study of the lifetime distribution of health care costs the per-capita lifetime expenditure for women is one-third higher than for men 361 200 and 268 700 respectively And that s for those with insurance The study used data from 3 75 million Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mich

In this week s issue the editors weigh in on the U S bishops conerns about and reactions to the recently passed health care reform bill The great stumbling block to endorsing the bill was the fear that under the terms of the core Senate bill financing might seep out through community health

Sure Jesus multipled the loaves and fishes but he kept the fare at the Last Supper pretty simple Artists it turns out haven t had the same level of restraint Reuters reported that according to a recent study the size of the main meal in artists depictions of the Last Supper over the past 1 0