Michael J. O’Loughlin

Back in 1990 Pope John Paul II issued Ex corde Ecclesiae a document that the late pontiff hoped would guide Roman Catholic universities and help them live out their Catholic identity In The Chronicle of Higher Education David B House looks back on the last twenty years of Catholic education wit

A good film speaks to the depths of the human condition eliciting joy sorrow empathy disgust euphoria hope sadness angst or love It is the rare exceptional film that causes the viewer to experience more than only a couple of these emotions within the span of a two hours though often we c

In Lyons France an impish figure is causing a rift between a conservative Christian group on one side and the rector of the Catholic Cathedral on the other According to France 24 a stonemason working on the renovation fashioned a gargoyle after his friend and longtime construction manager Ahmed

From the Springfield Republican The athletic director at Cathedral High School Springfield MA lost her job this week saying she was pressured to leave after marrying her female partner in August Christine M Judd who served as athletic director and dean of students said she is no longer an e

A Princeton Theological Seminary researcher claims that more and more American teens are adopting a mutant form of Christianity in which God is a divine therapist whose mission is to make them feel better about themselves and their world Kenda Creasy Dean says more American teenagers are embrac

A poll released last month by the Public Religion Research Institute sheds light on the impact of religion and the 2008 vote to abolish same-sex marriage rights in California The poll finds that today a slim majority of Roman Catholics 51 support same-sex marriage interestingly that number ju

A couple new polls just released are causing quite a bit of eye rolling and aggravation among President Obama rsquo s supporters The numbers show that an increasing percentage of Americans believe the president is Muslim a decreasing amount that he is Christian and a growing plurality who are uns

Via the Daily Dish Cardinal Sean O rsquo Malley rsquo s thoughts on the ldquo Ground Zero Mosque rdquo as told to an interviewer for FOX News I told her it is a sign of the value we have for freedom in this country and for religious freedom in particular We certainly do not want to support gr

Recent Catholic convert and likely Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich is profiled in the latest issue of Esquire magazine with his second of three wife giving her first interview since the couple rsquo s very public and very dramatic divorce It rsquo s the kind of salaciously sensat

Some interesting news from my alma mater Yale Divinity School From the press release A scholarship in honor of the late Henri Nouwen who taught at Yale Divinity School for a decade beginning in 1971 has been established through a gift of 300 000 from a University benefactor who wishes to remai