nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Thomas J Reese SJ nbsp on Notre Dame from the In Faith Washington Post Newsweek blog President Obama s reception at Notre Dame showed once again that a new generation of Americans includ
May 2009
Posted inIn All Things
After Notre Dame: The Way Forward
Where do we go from here As the political leaders of our nation begin to debate such morally significant issues as universal health care conscience regulations and immigration reform how does the Catholic Church ndash its hierarchy and its laity ndash go forward after the spectacle at Notre D
Posted inBooks
Final Moments
Now that the baby boom generation is reaching retirement age its members must come to terms with death s new proximity Parents are dying cherished friends are dying The public figures who loomed so large for so many years are dying Not that this is a surprise The World Population Clock tells us
Posted inBooks
Criminal Consent?
Covering this topic is like writing about the 1936 Berlin Olympics by now the participants are all dead and anyhow none but a handful of stars Jesse Owens Pablo Picasso are known outside the fan base rdquo Like track and field events the doings of painters actors and writers seem rather tri
Posted inIdeas
Sanctity and the Secular: Have contemporary artists lost the idea of holiness?
When a revival of Robert Bolt’s marvelous play “A Man for All Seasons” opened on Broadway last October, the New York Times critic Ben Brantley, usually reliable for intelligent insights into theater and serious reflection on dramatic themes, wrote a strange review. Brantley seemed
Posted inIdeas
Sanctity and the Secular: Have contemporary artists lost the idea of holiness?
When a revival of Robert Bolt’s marvelous play “A Man for All Seasons” opened on Broadway last October, the New York Times critic Ben Brantley, usually reliable for intelligent insights into theater and serious reflection on dramatic themes, wrote a strange review. Brantley seemed
Posted inLetters
Letters
Some, But Not All A correspondent in a recent issue (Letters, 4/20) wrote that “it is a great pity that the American bishops do not choose to lead by recognizing the complexity of the issue on which they are called to teach, and then teaching in a way that produces more light and less heat.&r
Posted inFrom Our Archives
Church and the Nutmeg State: What was behind the church-state clash in Connecticut?
New England is sometimes considered the birthplace of religious liberty in America because several of the early colonies were founded by adherents of denominations being persecuted in Europe in the seventeenth century. They saw the isolation of colonies in the new world as a haven to practice their faith.
But only their faith.
