The New York Times on Sunday ran one of the more haunting and also fascinating articles I 39 ve read in some time about an issue becoming more urgent by the day Set against the backdrop of the case of Reggie Shaw whose texting while driving caused the death of two people the article gives an ov

Some years back, I enrolled in a graduate seminar in Analytic Philosophy. At the start of the first class, the professor posed the question—what makes you you? What is the core of your identity? If one were to teleport you through time and space, what part of you would need to be transferred s

Suicide note that he could no longer endure his treatment at his Catholic school.

U.S. physician-deacon has gone to Liberia to train and educate health care teams.

Paul Mayer who succumbed to cancer last November had a knack for noticing a moral crisis He might have learned it from his German-Jewish parents who whisked him from Frankfurt to New York just before Kristallnacht He grew up to become a Catholic and a Benedictine priest only to leave the clois

Born and raised in Scotland I left in 1979 as an ldquo economic refugee rdquo to live and work in London At that time the Scottish National Party seemed small and insignificant so much so that some people observed that they could hold their annual party conference in a phone booth Scroll forw

Little chance of a “throw the bums out,” anti-incumbent result in midterms.

Jesuit education is a vast topic encompassing history biography spirituality and pedagogy It 39 s interwoven with the history of the Catholic Church and the life of St Ignatius and yet even non-Catholics find the themes and principles of Jesuit education hospitable and illuminating Where does

Catholic and Orthodox patriarchs urge Westerners to take humanitarian action.

The family under discussion when the extraordinary Synod of Bishops convenes at the Vatican on Oct 5 will bear little resemblance to the family of 50 or even 20 years ago The blended and extended families created by high rates of divorce remarriage and cohabitation -- along with the worldwide migr

With just two days until the vote, opinion polls on the referendum are too close to call.

Are local governments the biggest threat to civil liberties in the United States?

Theologians from the University of St Thomas in St Paul Minn have released a letter to the Archbishop of St Paul ndash Minneapolis John Nienstedt They urge the archbishop to reintroduce himself to the ldquo people and parishes of the archdiocese rdquo to quot leave the legal talk to lawy

Pope Francis presided over the weddings of 20 couples in a historic ceremony Sunday at St Peter rsquo s Basilica in Rome As noted in an announcement put out by the Diocese of Rome among the couples married at the Mass were some who had children or cohabited before marriage as well as a groom gra

For North American readers the case offers a number of "anomalies" that need explanation.

East Jerusalem tour heightens bishops' awareness of complexities

President Barack Obama's decision to delay executive measures on immigration until after the November elections drew sharp rebukes from some of the most vocal advocates for immigrants, while others plugged away at arguing for certain actions, and analysts weighed whether the delay hurts or helps

As regular readers know of late I 39 ve been reading through the letters of St Ignatius for renewal and re-grounding The letters are remarkable in their boldness and clarity and in their capacity to jar one from spiritual complacency Each page teaches me once more about faith detachment disce