The American Academy of Religion is holding its annual meeting in San Francisco this year drawing academic theologians and religious scholars from over 1 000 colleges universities seminaries and other schools in every corner of the United States and in recent years other nations for several

The first helicopter flew over my Jesuit residence in Berkeley this morning at 7am by noon their drone will be a reminder to everyone for miles of today rsquo s planned ldquo Day of Action rdquo and 2 pm rally by the ldquo Occupy Cal rdquo movement on UC Berkeley rsquo s campus A general strik

At the celebration of Dan Berrigan S J s 85th birthday five years ago nbsp Ad multos annos Dan at St Ignatius of Loyola parish in New York City singer Natalie Merchant performed a classic union song Which Side Are You On nbsp The song made more popular by Pete Seeger in the 1940s bu

I spent much of this past summer in and around Denver Colorado first for a five-week directed study on the thought of theologian William Lynch S J for my licentiate degree for some of theologian John Kane s reflections on Lynch click here and secondly as part of the three-week ldquo Arrupe

The next Archbishop of Philadelphia according to John Allen is the current Archbishop of Denver CO Charles Chaput The following is from Archbishop Chaput s official website nbsp There s more elsewhere obviously nbsp Archbishop Charles J Chaput was born September 26 1944 in Concordia

The novelist Mary Gordon who has a new book out commented a number of years ago on a disturbing theme in novels by the ldquo great American writers rdquo of the last century mdash Updike Roth Bellow Mailer etc mdash noting that with some exceptions the theme of the American novel was a youn

How Maryknoll defined a century of mission work

The feed is not great but you can watch the open-door proceedings of USCCB meeting in Seattle here nbsp H T Grant Gallicho at Commonweal Jim Keane S J

The last few years have seen a number of editorial arguments in newspapers and journals on the exploitation of adjunct faculty by American universities next week s Nation has this contribution from William Deresiewicz concluding with a provocative challenge to American academics Just as in societ

Today should have been an easy day to die without notice considering the geopolitical enormity of the killing of Osama Bin Laden nbsp But the obituaries report the death of another notorious figure Rene Emilio Ponce blamed for slaying of priests dies at 64 From the LA Times Reporting from San