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This morning Sister Pat Farrell OSF president of the Leadership Conference for Women Religious appeared on National Public Radio s Fresh Air with Terry Gross nbsp The full audio will be posted later in the day but some excerpts of this wide-ranging interview have already been posted on the

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Last night on Lawrence O Donnell s MSNBC show The Last Word nbsp we discussed Nuns on the Bus Catholic social teaching and Jesus s invitation to care for the poor in a five-minute interview nbsp That segment can be found here nbsp After nbsp the nbsp show we nbsp continued our conversation

Here is a slideshow of some beautiful photos from the Jesuit Ordination Mass which was celebrated nbsp at Fordham University Chapel last weekend nbsp His Eminence Edward Cardinal Egan ordained three Jesuits in the presence of over 240 concelebrants not to mention the ordinands brother Jesuits

Update I asked Brother DeThomasis through his publishers whether he was worried about the Vatican s response to his book particularly since he is nbsp speaking against the official teaching on women s ordination He replied Of course given the recent punitive actions by some Church prelates

We are missing a powerful and vivid symbol of the love of Jesus, writes Father James Martin. For the Sacred Heart is nothing less than an image of the way that Jesus loves us.

Of course as someone who has written on the Old Testament particularly the Prophets Daniel Berrigan S J nbsp age 92 the Jesuit priest poet and peace activist understands the centrality of the original Ten Commandments nbsp But thanks to Jim Forest himself an apostle of social justice fo

There are many celibate nbsp gay Catholic priests in the church today nbsp And let me emphasize since nbsp that last statement nbsp is nbsp usually misunderstood I m speaking about celibate gay priests nbsp These are validly ordained nbsp homosexual men who lead celibate nbsp lives

Sr Simone Campbell of the Sisters of Social Justice and executive director of Network a Catholic social justice group mixes it up with the self-described most famous Catholic in America talking about women religious the Gospel her Nuns on teh Bus initiative to focus attention on the poor