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The controversy over Maryknoll’s Roy Bourgeois shows no signs of quieting down any time soon. A group of nuns has now issued a statement of support for Bourgeois: More than 100 Roman Catholic nuns from 22 religious congregations have written the Vatican protesting the threatened excommunication of Rev. Roy Bourgeois, a Maryknoll priest who publicly…

Last year, I posted this eye-popping story about a man who sued a priest over a homily. Now, an alert reader has sent me an update: An Algonquin man will get a formal apology, but no financial reward, as part of an out-of-court settlement entered this morning ending his lawsuit claiming a parish priest defamed…

The current economic woes seem to bear out the old idea that tough times can lead to crowded pews. (There are no atheists in foxholes and all that). From Sunday’s New York Times: The sudden crush of worshipers packing the small evangelical Shelter Rock Church in Manhasset, N.Y. — a Long Island hamlet of yacht…

As expected, the tributes to Avery Dulles are beginning to pour in, and one of the sweetest and most personal comes from a frequent visitor to The Bench, James Martin, S.J., who has blogged about his friend and colleague. He remembers a train trip to Boston with the man he called “Avery,” and the return…
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