At a time when a thick Catholic subculture has disappeared and most young people know little beyond the basics of the faith, the challenge of religious formation is daunting. On issues like the morality of war, bioethics, economic injustice, the relationship between religion and science, or the faith that informs the work of Catholic writers like Flannery O'Connor or Graham Greene, Catholicism can enrich a student's education immeasurably. According to Empowered by the Spirit, the U.S. bishops' 1985 letter on campus ministry, before Vatican II Newman club ministry was "often characterized by a defensive and even hostile attitude on the part of Catholic students and their chaplains toward the academic world, which was perceived as dominated by a secularist philosophy.
O'Brien claims that the church, like all communities of faith in a pluralist democracy, is required to help form a public moral consensus on the basis of which everyone makes the decisions needed to make as a people, and that sharing of responsibility for the common life is an educational and pastoral task of enormous significance. He believes that the Catholic community, with its own diverse constituencies ranging from immigrant outsiders to establishment insiders, has the potential to enrich the public debates greatly.
LOS ANGELES -- When Archbishop Jose Gomez introduced himself to the faithful Tuesday morning, he described Los Angeles as "the global face of the Catholic Church." He might as well have been talking about himself. Gomez, 58, who will succeed Cardinal Roger Mahony, is a reflection of the future of American Catholicism. Born in northern Mexico but now an American citizen, he is one of the millions of Latinos who will comprise the majority of Catholics in the United States within the next 10 years. And like so many of them, he is at once a conservative and a progressive -- unyielding in his opposition to abortion and gay marriage, passionate in his advocacy for immigrants and the poor, confounding to those who try to wedge him into the traditional right-left political paradigm.
In her analysis of the place of religion in Xicanisma, Ana Castillo says: Although the Catholic Church as an institution cannot, for a number of reasons, guide us as Mexican Amerindian women into the twenty-first century, we cannot make a blanket dismissal of Catholicism, either. Over thirty years later, after the ascent of the Religious Right to political power and the rhetoric of crusade and jihad after September 11, it is easy to assume that feminist politics must be secular politics.\n Where other feminist essayists identify the act of writing itself as a movement out of the mind-forged manacles of kyriarchy, Anzaldúa is more cautious, offering a record of spirit-experience only in fragments.
As a practicing Catholic, I am concerned to learn of the proposed federal guidelines under President Barack Obama's new health care law that will require Catholic institutions to offer health insurance that includes birth control. In my view, these Obamacare changes target Catholicism most unfairly. Catholics are taught to be tolerant of others, and, most importantly, to be sensitive to the needs of the poor.
VATICAN CITY -- Italy's most prominent Muslim, an iconoclastic writer who condemned Islamic extremism and defended Israel, converted to Catholicism Saturday in a baptism by the pope at a Vatican Easter service. An Egyptian-born, non-practicing Muslim who is married to a Catholic, Magdi Allam infuriated some Muslims with his books and columns in the newspaper Corriere della Sera newspaper, where he is a deputy editor. He titled one book "Long Live Israel.
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