Considerable debate is taking place throughout the Catholic world over whether and how church practices teachings and organizational infrastructure should change in response to new social norms and needs As reported recently in The National Catholic Reporter the Vatican has asked bishops across t

Demonstrations of God rsquo s existence have long been a staple in philosophy courses taught at Catholic colleges and universities The heritage is venerable stretching back from the present day to the ancient Greeks In his eminently readable God in Proof Nathan Schneider presents this history of

ldquo Change will come when the people are engaged right at the heart of things rdquo said Josette P rard a grass-roots activist in Haiti She spoke as that country struggled to rebuild after the disastrous earthquake of Jan 12 2010 that killed over 200 000 Haitians and destroyed the homes o

I first discovered Mario Vargas Llosa in 1990 when I was in Peru to see a friend climb Machu Picchu and write an article That was the time when Vargas Llosa the novelist was running for president of Peru The guerilla movement Shining Path was terrorizing the countryside and the economy was fal

During a much-discussed speech at The National Defense University earlier this year President Obama cataloged the dreadful conditions at Guant namo Bay and then asked ldquo Is that who we are Is that something that our Founders foresaw rdquo The question was obviously rhetorical though as Lo

During his long distinguished life as historian and novelist Thomas Fleming has focused for the most part upon 18th-century America and the Revolution That sustained focus however in some surprising ways has now led to his newest book a highly recommended narrative history that is dominated b