"There must be a place where the innocent will not suffer, where they will find refuge."

The editors of the New York Times Book Review have released their list of the 10 best books of 2013 which includes 5 selections for both fiction and non-fiction I 39 m happy to see two of my favorite authors on the list Chimamanda Adichie and Donna Tartt At nytimes com the editors provide a sho

ACA, DMV, FBI, IRS… how many voters make distinctions among them?

Residents of New Orleans can be forgiven if they 39 ve recently felt the ghost of Binx Bolling roaming their streets in the form of British rock royalty Binx the abstracted alienated main character from Walker Percy 39 s 1961 novel The Moviegoer wandered through New Orleans and its suburbs du

Over the last few weeks I 39 ve been speaking with a number of parents about the school where I work Xavier College Preparatory in Palm Desert CA and about the qualities that attract families Education is filled with competing theories and methods and approaches and it can be difficult to dec

In their widely cited book Securities Analysis, co-authors Benjamin Graham and David Dodd introduce what they call the “value investing” method. “Without some defined standards of value for judging whether securities are over- or under priced in the market place,” they write,

America 39 s editorial this week deplores the inaction of public officials on gun control as the one year anniversary of the slaying of schoolchildren in Newtown Ct approaches A judge has ordered that the 911 tapes of that event be released While some news organizations grapple over the ethics

Two weeks ago the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F Kennedy took us back to Dallas We remember where we were when we heard of the shooting Today Dec 4 we recall another 50th anniversary that of the approval of the first decree passed at the Second Vatican Council Sac

Pope Francis is "a prophet who sees the world as it is and has the courage to say so."

Lawyers for a woman who claims she suffered a miscarriage because of the way a Michigan Catholic hospital handled her case have filed suit on her behalf against the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops over its "Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care."The lawsuit was file

You are invited to a symposium to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Decree on Social Communications of the Second Vatican Council.Co-sponsored byAmerica magazine andSaint Joseph’s Seminary and CollegeNEW DATE TO BE DETERMINEDSaint Joseph’s Seminary and College201 Seminary AvenueYonkers, N

This Advent I am beginning again the practice of Centering Prayer This time I am inspired by David Frenette rsquo s fine book The Path of Centering Prayer Deepening Your Experience of God In his work Frenette develops the teaching of his mentor Fr Thomas Keating the founding father of the

We rsquo re now in the Christmas season which means there are fewer hard-news stories and more fantasizing about a political system that would fit the finale of It rsquo s a Wonderful Life Today NBC News rsquo First Read blog invites us to rekindle our imaginations from childhood when we were i

In the middle of my third year in law school when I was starting to stress over the bar exam and all the things that still had to get done before I could start my career I read words from Cardinal John Henry Newman that rattled the panes of my soul nbsp nbsp The words are from his sermon quot

Cape Cod MA Almost since the time I started blogging here at In All Things I rsquo ve been working on a book which I rsquo ve mentioned to you on and off over the years Within the frame of what I usually write ndash theological comparative studies with special attention to Catholic and Hind

Your Spirit changes our hearts enemies begin to speak together those who are estranged join hands in friendship and nations seek the way of peace together Preface 2nd Eucharistic Prayer for Reconciliation The storm of protest against the agreement between the Permanent Members of the UN Securi

Part of what has been keeping me off the blogosphere has been a collection of issues such as illness two bad colds in quick succession the SBL Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings and Thanksgiving This is enough to grind writing for a blog to a standstill but there is still another

We rsquo re long past the time when ldquo suburbia rdquo is a useful term for anything Writing that the suburbs are the key to an election is hack political analysis even worse than predicting that independent voters will decide a race often they don rsquo t American suburbs are so varied in

ldquo Evangelii Gaudium rdquo the ldquo Joy of the Gospel rdquo is officially designated an ldquo apostolic exhortation rdquo As such it joins the company of other such important papal pronouncements as Benedict XVI rsquo s ldquo Verbum Domini rdquo 2010 John Paul II rsquo s ldquo Pas

Oh brother More lazy stereotypes about celibates Bill Keller rsquo s op-ed today in The New York Times ldquo Sex and the Single Priest rdquo ha ha says that pretty much all celibate priests are lonely and that celibacy ldquo surely played some role rdquo in the sexual abuse crisis By his ow