Only a few decades ago, it was possible for either party to win U.S. Senate and governor’s races in every state.

This post is based on a reflection I delivered Friday October 4th 2013 to educators from Jesuit high schools in Arizona and southern California The theme of the talk was quot The Vocation of the Ignatian Educator quot It has been condensed and adapted for publication Though I 39 ve just enter

Refugees are the ldquo first victims rdquo of the ongoing conflict in Syria and ldquo the ones paying the highest price rdquo said Archbishop Francis A Chullikatt at The Humanitarian Response to the Middle East Refugee Crisis a side event to the 2013 High-Level Dialogue held on Oct 4 Chulli

The fiscal hostage crisis in Washington enters its second week as Speaker Boehner insists he will continue government shutdown unless he receives concessions on the Affordable Care Act which is having gridlock troubles of its own unrelated to political snarls Ailing U S cities seek reboot powered

The federal government shutdown is entering a second week with House Speaker John Boehner refusing to hold a vote on a ldquo clean continuing resolution rdquo that would reopen the government without delaying or defunding Obamacare One of the key players in this standoff is Texas Sen Ted Cruz w

More refugee deaths on the sea near the southern Italian island of Lampedusa has brought international focus to an ongoing tragedy—an unknowable loss of life as thousands of refugees and migrants each year seek to escape to Europe from North Africa in sometimes overloaded or ramshackle watercr

In "The Ignatian Educator," Matt Emerson writes on teaching students to think philosophically and theologically.

Before the articles in the national newspapers, before the talk show appearances by our editors, before the debates in the blogosphere, there was the galley. The words that would receive worldwide attention from the media and would mark a milestone in Francis’ papacy first came across my desk

Convince the Dauphin now, dear Joan, convinceHim now; forget the peasant business. WageCharm on him: boy-cut hair and virgin grace.Assert his strength to raise the English siege.The scene is mandatory, so the spellOnly awaits your touching. They are realYour voices: stop to listen, Joan. They callTo

On Monday Oct 1 more than 700 students and Catholic leaders interfaith partners and Washington insiders filled Gaston Hall at Georgetown University on a lovely autumn evening to discuss ldquo the Francis Factor rdquo The event was the Inaugural Public Dialogue of our new Initiative on Catholi

Seattle Washington mdash I am here at Seattle University doing some workshops for the School of Theology and Ministry on interreligious learning mdash this school is a leader in the new wave of interfaith ministerial training mdash and so I have fallen behind a bit on the news But a friend

Nearly 70 percent of American Catholics agree with Pope Francis 39 recent observation that the church has become too focused on issues such as homosexuality abortion and contraceptives That 39 s the finding of a Quinnipiac University national poll released this morning The survey found little

Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M., on a "tremendous day for the Franciscan family."

As I wrote on Wednesday the shutdown of the federal government is not helping GOP change its image as a party of old white men Whether the ldquo white rdquo part will doom it in the next presidential election is a matter of much debate though I rsquo m skeptical an all-out war on Obamacare is g

Between September and October of each year, coinciding with Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) and ending with the celebration of the “Encounter of Two Worlds” (Oct. 15), in the United States we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, a nationally recognized observance that has been enacted

Just days after I wrote about a California school district 39 s decision to monitor the social media accounts of its students a colleague directed me to a recent story from Miami Florida that shows in haunting fashion what 39 s at stake nbsp As reported in the Sept 13 2013 edition of the nb

Learning lessons from history, there two mistakes to avoid. The first is ignorance of the past; the second, supposing that it was inevitable.

Tuesday rsquo s post was about the apparent correlation between population density and party affiliation with counties trending Democratic as they reach the ldquo tipping point rdquo of 800 people per square mile I noted that Democrat Barack Obama carried 49 of the 50 most crowded counties last

Last week I visited western Washington to speak to principals in the Archdiocese of Seattle at their annual retreat It was a short but wonderful trip The diocese is filled with inspiring leaders who are synchronizing modern methods of pedagogy with the ancient heartbeat of Catholicism As we spok

Religious leaders gathered on Sept. 30 to denounce "political brinkmanship."