Here is an article from ThinkingFaith the online journal of the British Jesuits about Pope Benedict s comments on condoms and AIDS written by someone who knows what he s talking about--Michael Czerny SJ director of the African Jesuit AIDS Network nbsp Here s Father Czerny The Church u

A strange fun tidbit the alignment of Venus and Mercury relative to Earth today creates a very slight upward gravitational pull which is actually just enough to be sensed Many will feel a certain lightness in their step if you get on a scale your weight will be slightly less nbsp And the real

In response to the nbsp ongoing controversy over the University of Notre Dame rsquo s invitation to President Barack Obama to deliver this year rsquo s commencement address Hugh W Cleary C S C superior general of the Congregation of the Holy Cross has written an open letter to the president

When I ride the subway to work in the morning usually the announcements of the train conductor are either just-the-facts-ma rsquo am basics or incoherent grumbles nbsp But every once in a while if we catch just the right train we straphangers are greeted by a quiet steady voice somehow both

Our plane touched down in Peru late at night so on the bus ride to Canto Grande the neighborhood in which we spent our spring break I was able to see only the outline of the mountains against the black sky scattered with some light bulbs ascending up their slopes It wasn rsquo t until the hot m

It rsquo s cherry blossom time in Washington DC and as blooms sprout everywhere I rsquo m reminded how Lent is like the blossoms Lent just happens No longer do we need search for something to ldquo give up rdquo Lent is and it draws us into more conscious Christian behavior As Lent goes alon