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I share today an excerpt from John Dear, SJ 's latest column in the National Catholic Reporter and wish all my readers . . . . . . ...

. Writes Michael Jones of GayRights.org : And then comes the best part of the whole story . . . . Earlier this month, [the classmates of Se...

This is where the shadows come to play ‘twixt the day and night; Dancing and skipping along a chink of light. Somewhere in between the waxin...

. Did Jesus really exist? Well, yes, he did, and yes he does. We look for proof of Christ in many different places, none of them where he is...

Concluding The Wild Reed ’s 2010 Advent series, I share today a second except from Flora Slosson Wuellner’s contribution to the March/April ...

Pope Benedict just can't seem to bring himself to admit how devastating the clerical abuse scandal has been for Catholicism in the West....

Image: Michael J. Bayly. See also the previous Wild Reed post: An Evening Stroll (and Theological Musings)

The Wild Reed series “The Dancer and the Dance” continues with the second of three excerpts from Ramsey Burt’s book The Male Dancer: Bodie...

See also the previous Wild Reed post: Swallows' Ledge Image: Michael J. Bayly.

Over at the always informative Religion Dispatches , Alex McNeill has an excellent interview with Francis DeBernardo, executive director...

Image: Michael J. Bayly.

It is time to close this chapter in our history. It is time to recognize that sacrifice, valor and integrity are no more defined by sexual o...

. Part 2: April – June 2010 Following is a further selection of 2010 Wild Reed posts that I particularly enjoyed putting together. Many of ...

Continuing with The Wild Reed ’s 2010 Advent series, I share today excepts from Flora Slosson Wuellner’s contribution to the March/April 199...

I have to say that watching the pope watch a troupe of beautiful, half-naked male acrobats perform yesterday at the Vatican (see video below...