WOUNDED BIRD

Statement by Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York and Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco on the "U.S. Supreme Court deci...

I have an irritated, streaming eye, so I played hookey from church today.  In addition, it was raining, so altogether too much to overcome,...

From the ground up is how change will come.  The AP reports on a Holy Thursday sermon by Pope Benedict critical of a group of Austrian Roma...

About a week ago, I added Andrew Sullivan's The Daily Dish to my Google Reader. New posts appear on his blog with amazing speed. I ha...

Read Hans Kung's piece in the National Catholic Reporter titled "Ratzinger's Responsibility". I know that some of you dis...

From Ruth Gledhill in the Times Online : A leading Roman Catholic theologian has linked clerical sex abuse with priestly celibacy, blaming t...

Celibacy is a vocation, a special call from God. No human can call another human to a life of celibacy. Only God can make that call. Ther...