This month, ONE has a revealing and unsettling look at what it’s like to be a Coptic woman in Egypt (hint: it ain’t easy.) The reporter, Sarah Topol, sat down for a brief video interview, below, where she explains some of the challenges involved in being a woman journalist in that corner of the world. With all that’s happened there over the last 48 hours, I imagine it hasn’t gotten any easier. Check out more at the CNEWA blog,... Read more
Sr. Rose Pacatte has a terrific and inspiring interview with Martin Sheen, tied to his new movie “The Way,” over at National Catholic Reporter. He talks about his faith, his family, his film career, and much more. I feel that your opening performance in “Apocalypse Now” (1979) has something to do with your new film, “The Way,” because, to me, that performance reveals the sacramentality of film because it outwardly manifests the inner reality of a man’s darkness and despair.... Read more
Well, who’da thunk? Details: Former New York Times editor Bill Keller sat down for an interview at the LBJ Library last week and discussed the Times’ editorial stance when covering hotly contested social issues. In a forthright admission, Keller openly described the paper as “socially liberal.” Keller, who stepped down as Executive Editor of the New York Times and was replaced by the Times’ managing director Jill Abramson in June 2011, rejoined the paper as a senior writer and Op-Ed columnist. Keller... Read more
From a friend’s FB page: The night before the burial of her husband 2nd Lt. James Cathey of the United States Marine Corps, killed in Iraq, Katherine Cathey refused to leave the casket, asking to sleep next to his body for the last time. The Marines made a bed for her, tucking in the sheets below the flag. Before she fell asleep, she opened her laptop computer and played songs that reminded her of “Cat”, and one of the Marines... Read more
Now, for something completely different, from Franciscan University, and the men who are in the Priestly Discernment program. Evidently, a talent for performing tunes from Disney animated musicals (here, a production number from “Mulan”) is an important part of priestly discernment. Who knew? Anyway, the audience clearly loved it. Enjoy. Read more
The ad above was selected as one of the best Apple ads by an editor at Huffington Post. The Jesuit priest — Creighton University’s Fr. Don Doll, who appeared in it (along with rocker Todd Rundgren) — dropped an e-mail about the experience to CNS: In an email titled “A bit of Creighton in Apple history” and sent to Catholic News Service late last week by Creighton’s communications department, Father Doll told the story: “Here’s how I was invited to... Read more
Lucky Reno! Details, from the Northern Nevada Catholic: On Sept. 17, eight men were ordained at Saint Teresa of Avila Catholic Church in Carson City as permanent deacons for the Diocese of Reno by Most Rev. Randolph R. Calvo, Bishop of Reno. These men are: Joseph Bell from St. Thomas Aquinas Cathedral, Reno; Russell Bergin from St. Peter Canisius, Sun Valley; Michael Johnson from St. Teresa of Avila, Carson City; Brian Callister and David Norman from Our Lady of the... Read more
And he’s written about them both, too. And now U.S. Catholic has a fascinating interview with Jim Forest, discussing Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day — two of my heroes: Few have written authoritative biographies of the 20th-century spiritual giants Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker, and Thomas Merton, the celebrated Trappist monk and writer. Fewer still knew them both. But Jim Forest, a former Catholic Worker himself, did, and his unique insight reveals the human side of two figures... Read more
Lucky Reno! Details, from the Northern Nevada Catholic: On Sept. 17, eight men were ordained at Saint Teresa of Avila Catholic Church in Carson City as permanent deacons for the Diocese of Reno by Most Rev. Randolph R. Calvo, Bishop of Reno. These men are: Joseph Bell from St. Thomas Aquinas Cathedral, Reno; Russell Bergin from St. Peter Canisius, Sun Valley; Michael Johnson from St. Teresa of Avila, Carson City; Brian Callister and David Norman from Our Lady of the... Read more
Who knew church suppers could be such a threat? Details: Islamic authorities will provide counseling to a dozen Malaysian Muslims to “restore their belief and faith” after they attended a community dinner at a church hall, a royal sultan said Monday. The case has triggered worries among officials in Muslim-majority Malaysia that some non-Muslims were trying to convert Muslims. Proselytizing of Muslims is punishable by prison terms of various lengths in most Malaysian states. Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, the constitutional... Read more
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