Dan Berrigan the peace activist and poet together with members of his Jesuit community in Lower Manhattan spent a week of prayer and reflection over Labor Day at the Kirkridge Retreat Center in Pennsylvania Kirkridge has long been a friend to those who strive for peace and has hosted over the y

About a week ago comedian Louis C K presented an episode of his FX show Louie entitled God It was a 22 minute riff on faith Abraham and Isaac the crucifixion and saying Jesus Christ as a curse Incredibly bawdy at some moments it s nevertheless extremely thought-provoking Louis C

Couldn t resist posting this from my friend Mike Rogers S J nbsp For all you Ignatius-lovers out there here is a tour of his rooms near at the Church of the Gesu in Rome nbsp Enjoy your ten-minute nbsp hand-held video nbsp pilgrimage nbsp nbsp And that music from The Mission by Ennio M

Cardinal Cardinal Theodore E McCarrick Archbishop Emeritus of Washington recently traveled to the Middle East and spoke with Iraqi refugees there In a powerful piece in the The New York Review Of Books he described his experience The humanitarian consequences of this seven-year war on Iraqi civ

In their new book ldquo The Grand Design rdquo Stephen Hawking and co-author Leonard Mlodinow provide a theory that attempts to answer the question ldquo How did the universe begin rdquo The answer Well it rsquo s definitely not God In ldquo A Brief History of Time rdquo Hawking allowed

There s a story circulating on the internet today about an comment newly-minted Republican candidate for the Senate Sarah Pal er sorry Christine O Donnell made in 1998 on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher Now before I talk about the story a moment on the soap box Seriously media online