Kevin Clarke

The jaw-dropping revelations of the appalling double life of Mexico s Marcial Maciel just keep coming James Ellroy wouldn t write such stuff and expect anyone to buy it Two years after his death the execrable life and times of the founder of the powerful Catholic religious order the Legion of Chr

Former Boomtown Rat Sir Bob Geldof don t like Wednesday s report from the BBC alleging that essentially all of the money raised during 1985 s Live Aid Band Aid rock extravaganzas mdash including the big cash generated by best-selling tunes Do they know it s Christmas We are the world associa

The bishop s teaching on the medical use of feeding tubes for nutrition and hydration was revised last November to mandate ldquo an obligation to provide patients with food and water including medically assisted nutrition and hydration for those who cannot take food orally rdquo that nbsp extend

Two reports from Britain s Independent Catholic News and Fides indicate how difficult even dangerous it has become to be a Christian in the Middle East and why the pope s call for reciprocity remains so important The first story relates the increasingly precarious position of Christians in Iraq w

The Vatican is hardly a site where intrigue is unknown but a recent effort to discredit Archbishop Rino Fisichella nbsp has managed to raise some eyebrows A letter has been circulated among various media outlets calling for Fisichella s removal Signed by five members of the Pontifical Academy for

Took some last minute shuffling of flights owing to Washington winter storm wipeout and more is on its way but I have arrived at the annual Catholic Social Ministry Gathering The event brings together diocesan and parish-based directors and supporters of social justice and peace offices for some

It s nice to be reminded that the U S church has a position on peace we re all for it BTW and that the U S and Russia still have much unfinished business related to the end of the Cold War and the final status of our absurd nuclear weapons stockpiles Here s one time-ordinary of the U S Archdi

Gaza might not be the only thing under siege in the Middle East Israeli democracy has taken a fair number of hits recently A Zionist student organization Im Tirtzu partly bankrolled by the Christian Dispensationalist-Zionist and non-pal to Catholics John Hagee has issued an inflammatory repor

A Jan 12 letter posted at the website of the Apostolic Visitation of Institutes of Women Religious in the United States requests that U S women major superiors reconsider their response or lack thereof to the recent questionnaire from the office hat tip to Tom Fox at NCR The letter came from M