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Our favorite Catholic teacher blogger, the Anonymous Teacher Person tried a Death Theologians’ Society kind of activity involving role-playing, which didn’t turned out as she’d hoped. Her entries reminded me of something I did in graduate school. It’s worth telling. I went to Vanderbilt Divinity School – well, actually, my degree, an MA, was not…

One of the most outspoken priests in the Boston area has been Father Walter Cuenin of Our Lady Help of Christians in Newton. He announced his resignation – or departure from the parish – today. Here’s an article from the Boston Herald. Expect more tomorrow. Two things have happened this week: The Massachusetts Catholic Conference…

Check out the magazine for Seattle Pacific University, and their articles on/interview with/excerpts from speeches by N.T.Wright, Anglican bishop and scholar Who, incidentally has 7 books coming out in the next two years. If you have some time, and are feeling particulary helpless and hopeless in the face of resurrection-skeptics and divinity-doubters,  even from within…

Believe it or not, I’m on the Sunday NYTimes op-ed page. (Or at least the "Week in Review" section – somewhere….) The piece is okay – it’s really, really, really short – 150 words shorter than I originally wrote (per instructions). So, it’s not real deep, but..WHO CARES?!!!!  This is how it happened: Actually, I’m…

In The Guardian, an atheist makes an admission: The correlation is so clear that it is impossible to doubt that faith and charity go hand in hand. The close relationship may have something to do with the belief that we are all God’s children, or it may be the result of a primitive conviction that,…

Interesting capsules from the SPUC: Chinese officials who forced pregnant women to undergo abortions and sterilised couples who had more than two children have reportedly been sacked. The report follows a campaign by pro-life activist Chen Guangcheng who is currently under house arrest for exposing the violations in the local area. He said that the…

An article originally published in Crisis, reprinted at Holy Spirit Interactive, explaining corporal mortifications as a spiritual practice: But let’s go even further. It’s clear that simply being a good person requires some kind of mortification. If a man doesn’t control his anger or resentment, he’ll be impossible to live with, and may even end…

A prayer center opens: The person of Padre Pio, the saint of Pietrelcina, is becoming ever closer to the heart of Lebanese Christians and Muslims. Devotion for this “foreign” saint was celebrated yesterday, Padre Pio’s feast day according to the liturgical calendar, with the inauguration of a “centre for prayer and meditation” in the city…

We had a little bit of discussion of the din in St. Peter’s in Rome, a few months back, occasioned by my dad’s Roman holiday and his reflections on the matter. Here’s an interesting note on a new policy: In Italy, the "tramontana" is the brisk wind that blows away the lazy days of summer…

That Exorcists’ convention that was the butt of jokey commentary? Here’s some reporting from the meeting. In statements to the Italian newspaper Avvenire, Father Giancarlo Gramolazzo, president of the International Association of Exorcists, said: "There is much disinformation today on the role of the exorcist; sadly, the media shows this figure as something other than…
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