Reading Catholic and Feminist has been a strange experience The book centers on the years between 1960 and 1980 a two-decade slice of American Catholicism as lived by women and a few men trying to be true to their faith and their feminism The strangeness I felt stems from my coming of age durin

Sovereignty is one of the most contested and yet indeterminate concepts in the field of political science The casual observer will know that it has something to do with ldquo unity of power rdquo ldquo legitimate right to govern rdquo and ldquo absolute control of territory rdquo but may st

'No one needs to be told that newspapers are nearing their end days.'

Remembering Jon Hassler, the author of grace-filled Catholic fiction.

Historical Precedents In his guest editorial, “Racism and the Election” (10/27), Bishop Blase Cupich was correct to remind us of Archbishop Joseph Rummel, the courageous archbishop of New Orleans who in 1962 publicly excommunicated three Catholics, including a politician, for supporting

Marilynne Robinson's 'Home,' reviewed

A play about Dorothy Day

Dexter Filkins' 'The Forever War,' reviewed

The end of the Catholic vote as we have known it

Too many people seeking asylum are turned away

Mark has divided his work literarily now into three units each headed by Jesus prophecy that he will be killed and will rise from the dead In the first literary unit these is the Transfiguration story which we spoke of in no 27 There are two more stories to hear now The first has to do w

Marx s Capital is back on the bookshelves in Germany -- but the Marx in question is a Catholic bishop And while his book is a response to the crisis of capitalism the revolution he is calling for has more to do with Rerum Novarum 1891 than Das Kapital 1867 nbsp You ve got to hand it to th

One of the best aces in the hole for the Republican party has been their Get-Out-The-Vote GOTV operation In 2004 I was working on a congressional race and the final weekend an independent poll had the race tied but we lost by 8 points because the GOP deployed their famed 72-hour plan Karl Rove

We notice now that Mark records three predictions by Jesus of his passion death and resurrection 8 31 9 31 10 33-34 From a literary point of view each of these three predictions serves as a heading for the stories which follow it That is each of the stories in each of the three groupin

In 2004 a grassroots organization in Ohio called ldquo Catholics for Kerry rdquo asked the campaign to send a surrogate to one of their events They were told ldquo We don rsquo t do white churches rdquo Turns out if you ldquo don rsquo t do white churches rdquo you also don rsquo t get to

Cambridge MA In last week rsquo s entry to this column I explained how I attempted to write a piece for the Sunday New York Times rsquo Modern Love section on loving God I explained that I thought that we should be able to speak of loving God in a modern accessible way My piece was not accep

Here s a fun video courtesy of Bustedhalo com on the saints and Halloween nbsp Special credit goes to exec producer Mike Hayes Bill McGarvey and Jarrad Venegas for showing how nbsp Catholic history and tradition can be made--dare I say--lighthearted with some cool video techniques nbsp And

From CNS Friend of murdered Jesuits in Moscow expresses shock over deaths By Regina Linskey Catholic News Service WASHINGTON CNS -- A Chilean priest who was friends with the two Jesuits murdered in Moscow expressed sadness and shock over their deaths Everything is so weird Jesuit Father Tom

From the Press Office of the Jesuit Curia in Rome this morning nbsp Two Jesuits Fathers Otto Messmer and Victor Betancourt killed in Moscow On Saturday 25 October Father Victor Betancourt an Ecuadorian Jesuit working in the St Thomas Philosophical Theological and Historical Institute in M