Author: Emily Reimer-Barry

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) is an association of the leaders of congregations of Catholic women religious in the United States. Their mission statement succinctly describes their work: The purpose of the...

It isn’t every day that one gets to be in the presence of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, but I was privileged to have this experience today. In the program book for today’s talk, “Cultivating Peace and Justice,” which is part...

Pope Benedict XVI, upon his arrival in Mexico [English links from Vatican transcript] on Friday,said that his goal in this apostolic visit was to encourage Mexican Catholics to “revitalize their faith” so that they...

When my friends from New Wineskins first started talking about a Catholic Moral Theology blog a few summers ago, I tried to talk them out of it.  I remember a Sunday morning conversation at the end of a stimulating weekend. We...

I join other people of faith in mourning the death of Troy Davis, who was killed by lethal injection in Jackson, Georgia tonight. Davis had been convicted of the 1989 killing of off-duty police officer Mark MacPhail. One of the...