Many iPhones lit up the night Bishop Blase Cupich of Spokane was announced as the replacement for my former boss Cardinal Francis George O M I The appointment of Bishop Cupich as the new ordinary for the Archdiocese of Chicago has been presented by many in the media as a discontinuance of ldquo

Addressing the Catholic Finance Association in New York City October 7 2014 nbsp I am happy to come to this conversation not only as a Jesuit priest but also as a proud graduate of the Wharton School of Business To establish some bona fides I was a finance major at Wharton took a job in the

'Vampires represent those of us in society who feel damned.'

Cardinal P ter Erd of Hungary as the relator for the Oct 5-19 Synod of Bishops on the Family opened this historic discussion nbsp in Rome on Oct 6 with a presentation that seemed intended to lower expectations on the eventual outcome of the synod in 2015 while holding out a few strands of hop

ldquo Synod Assemblies are not meant to discuss beautiful and clever ideas or to see who is more intelligent rdquo Pope Francis told the 191 synod fathers from all continents gathered with him in St Peter rsquo s Basilica as they concelebrated mass on Sunday morning October 5 for the opening o

Sometime ago as I stood at the back of a parish church following Mass greeting members of the parish a family approached and its youngest member a boy of about 5 asked me ldquo Why do you call us brothers and sisters You rsquo re not my brother rdquo I said to him ldquo There is a sense in