From 1995, Andre Dubus III on Alice Munro, winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature

The percentage of multicultural parishes in the U S is on the increase according to new research from the Georgetown University-based Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate C A R A C A R A estimates there are approximately 6 700 multicultural parishes in the United States many located

Tuesday brings a special election for a U S Senate seat in New Jersey in which Newark Mayor Cory Booker is expected to beat Republican opponent Steve Lonegan the former state director of the conservative lobbying group Americans for Prosperity One poll last week had Booker up by 12 points anoth

Global wealth has reached a new all-time high of $241 trillion, up 4.9 percent since last year and 68 percent since 2003, with the United States accounting for 72 percent of the latest increase. That’s the account of earthly wealth taken in the 2013 Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report. Average

The fall General Assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops begins on Nov. 11 in Baltimore. • Great Britain’s Catholic Agency for Overseas Development declined Dennis MacBride’s donation of the proceeds from his political memoir Power Trip, after increasing criticism of the

In the course of recent reading I nbsp came across this passage from an essay by Howard Gray S J Ignatius learned to trust his heart as a place of unique encounter with God Trust is an essential component of Ignatian spirituality Trust in turn will permeate the life and mission of the S

Readers respond to "A Big Heart Open to God," by Antonio Spadaro, S.J. (9/30)A Beautiful HeartThe wonderful interview with Pope Francis is something that I will read over and over, trying to grasp for my own life the deep values that Francis holds dear and his vision for the church. I

In the four most productive years of Thomas Aquinas rsquo life the man produced the equivalent of two or three average-length novels every month For all the words he wrote however an immense silence lies at the heart of Thomas There is of course the silence of the Summa which he left unfini

Recent events suggest we are experiencing a kairos moment in the life of the church.

Play On?; 'Sell By' Dates; Just War for Oil?

A new report from the World Bank urges greater access for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories to land in Area C More than half the land in the West Bank much of it agricultural and resource rich is inaccessible to Palestinians The first comprehensive study of the potential impact of this q

In Commonweal Charles Michael Andres Clark despairs that the fierce resistance to the Affordable Care Act ldquo Obamacare rdquo to the point of shutting down the federal government is part of the American political tradition Every effort to broaden the scope of ldquo all men rdquo and promo

As mid-semester approaches a number of articles have dealt with the scandals shame and occasional successes in American education Start with football Sports Illustrated 9 15 opened a series called ldquo The Money rdquo by George Dohrman and Thayer Evans documenting the corruption in big col

How do you know if your soul is healthy?

A government shutdown is an unconscionable burden on those least able to bear it.

"The church is a mother, and she must travel this path of mercy," the pope said.

Shock Find People don 39 t like to be isolated This essentially is what the Wall Street Journal reports today in an article summarizing nbsp the pros and cons nbsp of MOOCs -- the quot massive open online courses quot pioneered by companies like Coursera and edX and now increasingly offered at

Civilian Catholic chaplains, unable to perform religious duties at U.S. military bases during the first weekend of the federal government shutdown, were getting back on the job as the shutdown continued into its second week."We're now being told priests can return to work," said John S

This is the fourth entry in the Second Letter of Paul to the Thessalonians Bible Junkies Commentary You can find the first entry here nbsp In the first entryI discussed introductory matters such as the origin of the Church in Thessalonica its early history with Paul Silvanus and Timothy and a

Pope Francis is continuing his informal outreach to gay and lesbian Catholics hat tip Daily Dish and despite his apparent comfort with modern social media and its dizzying gadgetry he is apparently still happy to make use of old-school communication tools Pope Francis turned to pen and paper