A statement from the seven Franciscan OFM Provinces in the United States in support of the Leadership Conference of nbsp Women Religious has been released nbsp This is the first men s religious order nbsp publicly declare their solidarity with the LCWR and also to critique the Vatican s Doctrina

We grow worried and concerned and bothered and angry and sometimes scandalized because your divine institution, our home, is filled with human beings who are sinful. Just like me.

I am delighted to share this press release with you just approved by our Board of Directors in today s meeting nbsp nbsp Matt Malone SJ Appointed Editor-in-Chief of America Magazine Youngest Editor-in-Chief in Publication rsquo s History nbsp to Lead Nation rsquo s Only Catholic Weekly Magazi

One of the most respected Catholic theologians in the United States has been nbsp severely critiqued by the Vatican for one her most recent books nbsp Margaret A Farley RSM who teaches moral theology at Yale Divinity School and has served as a mentor for generations of Catholic theologians ha

The USCCB has sent us the text of Archbishop Peter Sartain s response to the LCWR s statement this morning Archbishop Peter Sartain June 1 2012 Response to LCWR statement of this morning Both the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and I are wholeheartedly committed to dealing with the

The LCWR has responded to the Congregation nbsp for the Doctrine of the Faith s Doctrinal Assessment of their group nbsp In this initial statement the nbsp LCWR nbsp expresses nbsp its nbsp clear and I would say strong disagreement with both the nbsp Vatican s nbsp accusations and the way that

This morning I spoke on the popular nbsp hour-long Radio Times show on WHYY the NPR affiliate in Philadelphia with Marty Moss-Coane nbsp The topic was the Vatican s investigation of the LCWR nbsp Notable was not only the length of the show which afforded the opportunity for an in-depth discu

Sister Mary Johnson SND de Namur is a nbsp professor of sociology at Emmanuel College in Boston and a member of the Center for Applied nbsp Research on the Apostolate in Georgetown nbsp She joined me on nbsp The Brian Lehrer Show on nbsp New York City s public radio station WNYC nbsp for a

Here s a lovely piece in The Boston Globe about Dan Kennedy a bright young man just graduated from Boston College who is entering the Jesuit novitiate this summer nbsp nbsp The profile nbsp gets pretty much everything right about its topic and avoids all the linguistic pitfalls that bedevil most

Thomas J Reese S J senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center in Georgetown and former editor in chief of America has sent us his keynote address to the Clergy Abuse Conference in Santa Clara University today I am not an expert on the crisis but rather a journalist commentator and