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Politicians need to hear from the American people that they are willing to make sacrifices for the future of the nation.

Prison policy needs to allow for the possibility of redemption.

To change means that one is alive. This applies to people, institutions and languages. Change is a natural development even when it meets resistance from those who have become comfortable with old, familiar ways. The challenge of change faces Catholics now, as the church in the United States and the

Shakespeare, Edmund Campion and the grace of forgiveness

As I grieved over the recent earthquake victims in Haiti, many friends who know of my close personal ties to that country sought to console me. Those ties began in 2001, when as an idealistic graduate student of sociology I undertook a dissertation project that compared how the Catholic Church assis

I rhyme to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.” Seamus Heaney

For years I’ve knelt at your holy wells

The spiritual exercises of a hospital chaplain