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

It s a beautiful story says Jon Krakauer of the harrowing and inspiring experiences that led to Greg Mortenson s best-selling Three Cups of Tea and it s a lie Oh boy What s this Following the 60 Minutes segment on Sunday that called into question many of the details of Mortenson s book

I have been the altar boy at many a funeral and time does not decrease the frequency of such happenings but yesterday was a particularly graced moment I had the good fortune to assist at the funeral of Sr Mary Milligan RSHM at Loyola Marymount University I was reminded during the ceremony tha

Following up on Kerry rsquo s post about liturgists who are concerned with the new Missal I thought it might be useful to share some practical observations and concerns about its implementation As part of our training for the priesthood every Jesuit scholastic headed toward ordination at my theol

Last Thursday was the first day of class for a university course I am teaching on Catholic novelists and I remembered to ask a question that always intrigues me with a new group of students nbsp What one book have you all read nbsp In other words is there any single novel that everyone in the