In remembering the suffering of history’s victims, we begin to see that the suffering continues.

“This is no longer the Tacloban that we loved. Everything is gone."

In parishes across the country this weekend the collection plate will be passed to support the U S bishops rsquo domestic anti-poverty initiative mdash the Catholic Campaign for Human Development At a time when 1 in 6 Americans live in poverty and extreme income inequality is growing a contribu

The 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F Kennedy brings many thoughtful pieces on how the United States has changed since that horrible day such as fellow America contributor Francis X Clooney rsquo s ldquo JFK and Me rdquo I rsquo m struck by how political discourse has changed sin

I have never met Segundo Montes I have also never met Ignacio Ellacuria or Amando Lopez I have not met Ignacio Martin-Baro Juan Ramon Moreno Joaquin Lopez y Lopez nor Elba Ramos or her daughter Celina The truth is that they all died five years before I was even born These eight individuals li

The latest blog from Matt Emerson at 'The Ignatian Educator'

Ryan Williamson who runs the blog titled the quot Socratic Review quot what Williamson describes as quot the intersection of modern technology and classical education quot has written a thoughtful critique of my post from yesterday In that post quot Avoiding Education as Self-Checkout Line

Late on Sunday nights when I was a kid I used to sneak downstairs to our family TV room, where more often than not my father was asleep in his chair, the news or sitcom reruns droning on. I would do my best to slip the remote control from off his chair, turn down the volume and switch the channel. I

Cape Cod Mass -- Like everyone else old enough to remember I am marking this week the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F Kennedy The other day I stopped by the J F K Memorial in Hyannis see picture so near to where the Kennedys even now still have their summer home and spent so

If someone can sign up for health insurance on Healthcare gov as easily as he or she can cast a vote the website will still be an embarrassment Voter ID laws can be as frustrating and time-consuming as anything related to Obamacare as noted in an earlier post about the problems for some married wo

Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M., responds to readers of his column "Lead Us Not Into Clericalism."

There was no blarney or bluster in Jerome Murphy-O rsquo Connor rsquo s classroom unless it was coming from him I saw this first hand when I had the privilege of being his student at Fordham University in the summer of 2007 for a seminar entitled ldquo Events in the Life of Jesus rdquo On

The latest blog from Matt Emerson at "The Ignatian Educator"

"If life is about loss, it is also about its opposite: discovery." A reflection from Valerie Schultz

Even conservative voters support federal aid to their communities when the program predates the Barack Obama administration And taking the nomination process away from political parties may lead to more kinda-sorta moderates in Congress Those are two interpretations of the upset in a special congre

Earlier this week in the early evening I stepped out of my office and looked up to see the sun glowing behind the mountains see picture right It was an interrupting beauty instantly transporting me from lesser concerns nbsp But as I lingered and adored I fell into a state that Wordsworth de

So Washington has come up with a news story even more protracted and complex than the government shutdown and default threat of October It rsquo s going to take me all weekend to catch up on all the developments on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act ldquo Obamacare rdquo which means

It begins with the woodwinds soft low and warm Next the violins enter at first intermittently and then the brass burst forth with the chorus shortly thereafter Forcing the listener to run the gamut of emotions from fear to joy horror to relief and with overwhelming force and great empowerme

Writers like to write in the shadow of death nbsp ldquo Write rdquo writes Annie Dillard ldquo as if you were dying At the same time assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients That is after all the case What would you begin writing if you knew you would die s