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Novelist Mary Gordon has just published a new book, with memories of her mother and her Catholic upbringing in the middle of the last century. For anyone who wonders what it was like to come of age during that particular time, the book, “Circling My Mother,” appears to be a vivid reminder of what the…

From the blog Clerical Whispers, we get this piece of news about a priest in the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia who has been suspended because of an argument he got into with his parish deacon: The Rev. Joseph J. Clark, an Irish-Catholic bartender turned priest, never planned to be in the middle of a fracas…

What happens to a church after it’s closed? Here in New York City, I know of a couple places that have become condos (with awesomely high ceilings and stunning stained glass windows in the master bedroom.) But a reporter at the Religion News Service decided to find out what various religions do when a temple…

Continuing the “Sister Act” theme I began on the feast of the Queenship of Mary, here’s one for a Friday afternoon. I imagine — even in the bleakest moments of her doubt — that Blessed Mother Teresa could have understood the sentiment in this.
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