2008

It is hard to know where Mitt Romney looks for a big victory on Tsunami Tuesday In Georgia and Arkansas conservative states with plenty of wealthy country club Republicans Mitt s base if you will Mike Huckabee stands between Romney and victory Georgia s rich load of delegates will be aw

Commentators have focused ad infinitum on the racial composition of the electorate in South Carolina last week But as noted earlier Obama trounced Clinton among church-goers by 58 to 27 3 points better than he did among all voters Certainly there was a degree of overlap between church-goers an

I spent two years working in Nairobi Kenya during my Jesuit formation During that time I was befriended by Kenyans from a variety of ethnic groups Kikuyu Luo Kamba Samburu Kalenjin Maasai and many others They taught me a select few words in their languages so that in addition to Kis

I went to dinner with three friends last night in Bethesda just outside Washington We began talking about the Democratic primaries and about how disgusted we were with the Clintons campaign tactics especially Bill Clinton s dismissive equation of Obama s South Carolina victory with Jesse J

Florida is practically giddy today over last night s win not for McCain or Clinton but for the sunshine state itself which had its first decisive presidential primary in recent memory A Florida Boost blares the front-page headline of The Miami Herald The state s leading newspaper observed

The best picture nominee has stirred up a lively debate on this question Much of the discussion revolves around why the eponymous character a 16-year-old high school student decides to have her baby when she accidentally becomes pregnant Here s a quick roundup In Slate Ann Hubert suggests t

John McCain s victory in Florida gives him an almost priceless amount of momentum heading into next week s Tsunami Tuesday when 21 states hold GOP primaries The almost comes from the fact that McCain is facing the one candidate Mitt Romney who can dip into his personal fortune and spend 50

Tonight I gave a presentation to a group of students and staff at Santa Clara regarding recent research on the relationship between spiritual practice and sexual decision-making in the lives of college students No one who works with the current generation of college students will be surprised t

Readers of America magazine are already familiar whether they know it or not with the work of Don Doll the award-winning Jesuit photographer who teaches at Creighton University His gorgeous photos have been part of our magazine for several years Over the past several weeks his photos of th

Here s a link to the complete text of Father Adolfo Nicolas s freewheeling meeting with the press on Jan 25 in which he says among other things that he s neither Father Kolvenbach Father Arrupe or even Elvis Some journalists say that I am like Arrupe or like Kolvenbach half and