Sen Joe Biden gave a feisty speech last night And it wasn rsquo t difficult to see from whom he inherited that Irish feistiness His mother was in the hall and looked like she was ready to duke it out with John McCain and anyone else who would attack her son The news anchors all announced in on

Forgiving priests guilty of abuse could be the key to healing.

Ministry beyond liturgy for young adults

For everyone who said What s the big deal when the earlier Vatican document about the Tridentine Mass was promulgated comes a report from Catholic News Service Remember that even if there is and this is debatable not a groundswell of interest on the part of the American Catholic laity

What can Catholics learn from our brothers in the Eastern church?

The members of Order of Malta or at least its American branches concluded their annual one-week pilgrimage to Lourdes yesterday and your intrepid Jesuit reporter was among them As in the past few years I was as a guest of and chaplain for the Federal Association of the Order which makes

It is a great privilege to be here with you this evening to be with the many friends and admirers of Cardinal Dulles and to offer these words in deep appreciation and gratitude for all that he has been for us, all that he has shared with us as priest, as theologian and as friend. It would be neglige

A reflection on Cardinal Avery Dulles' McGinley lectures

Christ the Lord The Road to Cana Anne Rice s new novel received if not a rave review then a very positive one in The New York Times this morning Times review The book is a follow-up to Christ the Lord Out of Egypt her bestselling novel about the birth and childhood of Jesus That fi