In All Things

Just posted in our online Culture section a review of the new series Justified by Carolyn Buscarino I ve not seen it but this review makes me want to do so Use it or drop it rdquo U S Deputy Marshal Raylan Givens calmly warns a jumpy criminal as they face off guns drawn on a deserted road

No I m not making this up nbsp Coming to a theater near you is The Jesuit starring Paz Vega pictured here Variety sez nbsp Paz Vega is set to star in Paul Schrader s ensemble drama The Jesuit while Willem Dafoe Oscar Isaac and Michelle Rodriguez are in final talks Film Bridge Intl i

At first blush this may sound like inside-baseball but it s an appointment of significance for the U S church From Boston College Chestnut Hill Mass 5-13-10 — Boston College has announced the appointment of Mark S Massa S J the Karl Rahner Professor of Theology and the director of the

Another great reporting job nbsp from NCR this time on a worldwide meeting of women religious a nice antidote to all the Iceland-volcano-like gloom in the church today nbsp Some saw it as a spark in a dark night kindled to flame and eventually into a torch bright enough to guide spirits forwar

This coming Saturday Father David O rsquo Connell CM will preside over his twelfth and final graduation ceremonies as the President of the Catholic University of America As an alumnus of CUA I remember the excitement I felt when I first saw him walk into the bookstore at Kramerbooks 12 years ag

Timing isn rsquo t everything but it is something And the world has shrunk so much that nowadays an avalanche of important events seems to fall on us with increasing regularity if not all the time To complexity and speed we should add a third challenging aspect of modern life simultaneity Con

A thank you to the nuns and a story relevant to child psychology today nbsp nbsp nbsp Wesley Van Ornum was born December 14 1914–a year when an assassin rsquo s bullet began a war as brutal as any where death came by mustard gas instead of suicide bombers Soon my father would experience

Yesterday Pope Benedict XVI nbsp called sexual abuse ldquo truly terrifying rdquo nbsp nbsp In his frank comments to reporters aboard the plane en route to Portugal he seemed to rebut curial officials who have sought to portray the crisis as somehow generated from the outside nbsp The greate

Deal Hudson has decided to join the recriminations against Sister Carol Keehan DC of the Catholic Health Association for her support of the health care overhaul that is now the law of the land Deal Hudson of course was the GOP rsquo s go-to guy during the Bush years and he made his opposition

Last week for four days I was in Kananaskis Alberta about 90 minutes from Calgary I was speaking at the annual Blueprints conference an extraordinarily well-coordinated gathering for principals of Catholic schools and their trustees I returned to the close of the Fordham school year utterl