Religious leaders around the country are stepping forward to denounce acts of anti-Islamic bigotry emerging in the wake of the heated debate around the Park51 Islamic center proposed for lower Manhattan In a joint statement released at the National Press Club September 7 national religious figures

Perhaps we cloud this topic with euphemisms--but many a boy or growing young man who is poor at sports faces hurdles of bias loneliness and rejection Despite many ways of compensating intellectual musical artistic poor athletic coordination keeps many boys and young men alienated from their

Last week Archbishop Timothy Dolan the archbishop of New York invited me to join him on his weekly Sirius XM radio show on the Catholic Channel nbsp A radio show is a natural venue for the archbishop who as most American Catholics know by now is a friendly warm and genuinely happy priest

Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels whose attempts to mediate in a family dispute over one of his bishops who had abused his nephew ended in disaster was the subject of three previous posts here here and here which I rather agonised over caught up as I was in the human drama of it all The Ca

One of our newest associate editors Raymond Schroth S J a name most likely familiar to many of our readers he has a long history with America Commonweal and NCR and is the author of many well-respected books--including what looks like a fascinating new book soon to be published on Robert Dri

Stephen Hawking s recent comment that the universe does not need a creator God--because it can spontaneously create itself--has prompted lively debate on the web and also this intelligent response from nbsp Robert Spitzer S J nbsp nbsp Fr Spitzer a Jesuit priest and the former president of Go