On Sept. 26, 1957, America mailed a check for $50 to Room 362 of the Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. The check was made out to “Senator John F. Kennedy” and represented payment in full for an article he had written about the ongoing crisis in Algeria (10/5/57). There is no evi

Rebels in the Central African Republic are targeting Christians, the local bishop says.

When Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in Tunisia on Dec. 17, 2010, the Arab Spring began. Now, three years later, the results hoped for in Middle East have not been realized.

Sandy Hook should not have happened. Those 20 children and six teachers and administrators should not have died.

For Marcel a society defined by material possessions ends up considering life itself a joke.

Pope Francis lays out a vision of the church dedicated to society's poorest and most vulnerable.

Paul Ryan wants the Republican Party to talk more about poverty The Wisconsin congressman a possible presidential candidate in 2016 ldquo hopes to roll out an anti-poverty plan rdquo next year according to a profile by Lori Montgomery in the Washington Post Ryan is best known for preaching au

At the end of his life ill and dying St Francis of Assisi told his fellow friars ldquo Let us begin brothers to serve the Lord God for up until now we have done little or nothing rdquo His first biographer Thomas of Celano comments on the Saint rsquo s exhortation ldquo Francis did not

Teachers today are frequently told to avoid lecture for more project-based learning The catchphrase of the era is that teachers should move from being the quot sage on the stage quot to the quot guide on the side quot Teachers are urged to be quot learning designers quot or quot learning fa

From James Martin, S.J.: "Evangelii Gaudium" is Pope Francis’s ringing response to prophets of doom.

I recently wrote about the horrendous case of Rebecca Ann Sedwick a 12-year-old who jumped to her death from a cement plant after enduring repeated attacks of cyber-bullying In the wake of her death the Polk County sheriff 39 s office Florida filed charges against two of Rebecca 39 s peers on

It rsquo s almost enough to make you wish for more sports metaphors in political reporting In October ldquo brinkmanship rdquo was the word of choice in describing the stand-off in Washington that nearly resulted in a default on the national debt In November the confounding inconveniences asso

Today Pope Francis announced the canonization of Pierre Favre, S.J., aka Peter Faber.

Writing about Paul Elie yesterday has me recalling a passage from his outstanding book nbsp The Life You Save May be Your Own I first read it in law school when I was searching intensely for my own place for my own path for that combination of career location and life plan that like a railroad

The Jewishness of Jesus has seldom been rendered more clearly in art than in the crucifixion scenes of Marc Chagall. Of the 31 paintings and 22 works on paper in “Chagall: Love, War and Exile” (on view until Feb. 2, 2014, at the Jewish Museum in New York City), the handful of crucifixion

Readers who enjoyed yesterday 39 s post about Dana Gioia and his nbsp article on Catholic writers might be interested in Paul Elie 39 s thoughts from last year on nbsp a subject in the same family nbsp In the Dec 19 2012 nbsp New York Times in an op-ed titled quot Has Fiction Lost its Faith

The Feast of Christ the King is a relatively new feast It was first declared by Pope Pius XI in 1925 at a time of heightened nationalism and secularism Its biblical origins are very deep going back to the anointing of kings like David in ancient Israel as we hear in the opening reading In the N

After decades of the United States and Iran demonizing the other it is a welcome development that the two countries are sitting down to negotiate differences over Iran rsquo s nuclear program and may be within reach of a settlement Will they be allowed to make it or will Israel rsquo s Prime Mini

My name streams from your mouth—an adagio with indentations anda scent of sacrifice.I see my namewritten ingrass style calligraphy.I want to slide into each strokeand swim with each stroke.I am a dolphin swimming,bobbing up and downalong the Wai’anae coastI am afraid of drowning.The dolp