The Rev George W Hunt, S.J., editor in chief of America magazine from 1984-1998, died this morning at the Fordham University Jesuit community in New York.

A contemporary religious film lavishly praised by America magazine our reviewer John Anderson called it vaguely miraculous and The New York Times nbsp which today called it beatiful somber and rigorously intelligent nbsp Need you any more encouragement to see the award-winning Of Gods and

Our latest online Culture piece sees associate editor Kevin Clarke considering the implications terrible serious probable likely funny of Watson the IBM supercomputer trouncing two Jeopardy champions at their own game nbsp Whither nbsp the relationship between humans and computers nbs

Oh brother nbsp Hard not to bite your tongue when reading this nbsp Apparently Vatican II is important nbsp at the Vatican nbsp Traditionalist bishop cites lack of progress in talks with VaticanBy John Thavis Catholic News ServiceVATICAN CITY CNS -- The head of a group of traditionalist Cat

Irish Central reported today a dramatic scene in nbsp Dublin s St Mary s Pro-Cathedral nbsp part of the Vatican s visitation that is investigation by Cardinal Sean O Malley of Boston nbsp and Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York nbsp of the troubled church in Ireland H t Dotcommonweal and Whis

H T to CathNews At least a dozen Australian priests nbsp will refuse to use the new translation of the Roman Missal due to be implemented in November reports the Sydney Morning Herald nbsp nbsp The Catholic Church is facing open defiance over its new Mass says the Herald with at least a

Hey it s not just me who s focused these days on forgiveness charity and openness to those with whom we disagree the Gospels for the last two Sundays stress the always-topical theme of charity towards all--even your enemies nbsp Here s a little meditation on the Gospel reading for this Sunday

It took some time before this unusually long and unusually sympathetic article appeared on Entertainment Weekly s website but here is the entirely fascinating story of Dolores Hart the Nun Who Kissed Elvis aka Mother Dolores Hart of the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Connecticut nbsp Mother Dolore

Check out this lively and free-wheeling interview with Tom Beaudoin one of our esteemed bloggers nbsp on the 20something blog Millennial Catholic on the theological underpinnings of rock and you could say the rockological underpinnings of theology complete with clips from some cool rock vid

Happy Feast of St Claude la Colombi egrave re 1641-1682 the spiritual director of St Margaret Mary Alocoque who had received the visions of the Sacred Heart in the Visitation convent at Paray-le-Monial in France When few in her convent trusted her experiences and she was reaching a point of