Maureen O'Connell

Trento Italy ndash While the shifts in the Church that predicated the Council of Trent in the mid-1500s may not be quite as seismic as those put in motion by Martin Luther the nearly 600 moral theologians who have been meeting here since Saturday as part of a world-wide ldquo congress rdquo in

There are probably many things that separated former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick rsquo s experiences of the criminal justice and corrections systems from that of the 2 2 million Americans currently incarcerated and the seven million more either awaiting sentencing or serving probation

Andrew McCarthy shines the brightest among my celebrity sightings in New York He and a female companion sat so close to myself and a cousin in a tiny wine bar in my neighborhood they practically shared our bottle of wine and plate of cheese My cousin and I were totally gaga since McCarthy rsquo s

For Catholic social ethicists the eve of a social encyclical on the economy resembles Christmas Eve There rsquo s great anticipation in the air What new gifts will the Pope offer to the tradition of Catholic social teaching How will they be received by the various members of this global Catholi

This past weekend rsquo s 64th annual convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America in Halifax Nova Scotia took a turn toward the introspective The theme of this year rsquo s convention ldquo Impasse hellip and Beyond rdquo invited this somewhat unusual and unexpected drift The c

The 55th annual meeting of the College Theology Society at the University of Notre Dame this past weekend continued the necessary work begun last month by the Notre Dame community and their commencement honorees in claiming and expanding the common ground for a unified Catholic witness to a more ju

Youth violence surfaces in our public consciousness this week as we mark the 10th anniversary of Columbine As we inevitably debate the conditions and causes for youth violence we would do well to pay attention to a pervasive and life-threatening condition that affects a growing number of American

In his homily at yesterday rsquo s stadium mass in Yaound egrave Cameroon Pope Benedict XVI poignantly achieved something I have often struggled to do in undergraduate courses I teach on Catholic social thought or religion and politics he also accomplished something the American media seems to s