Many of us learned these songs not in school or from the media, but from their use in church around all our national holidays.

In holding up what is praiseworthy and godly, atheists can be our allies.

The oft-byzantine particulars of religious practice can be almost impossible to communicate effectively.

The impulse to stand out, it seems, has been overtaken by the impulse to fit in.

Despite his popular image, Jack Kerouac was born and died a self-identified Catholic.

Can anyone hold a candle to Jonathan Franzen in the world of contemporary American belles lettres?

There is a certain image of a religious sister that is predominant in American culture Catholic and not one that has been reinforced by half a century of movies and literature but also buttressed by stereotypes both positive and negative that have developed over the years about the hundreds of th

Readers of this blog may recall my post from two weeks ago today about Joe Hoover S J a classmate of mine at the Jesuit School of Theology who was found guilty of obstructing a public thoroughfare during an Occupy Oakland march on January 28 2012 nbsp Joe was sentenced on Easter Monday to ten

This morning in my class at the Jesuit School of Theology on ldquo Jesuit Priesthood Theory and Praxis rdquo our opening prayer included the following verses from Psalm 142 ldquo When my spirit grows faint within me You know my way In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me