Sister Leopoldina Burns recorded the event many years later when she was more than 65 years old Her English is a bit hard-pressed because she wrote late at night Twenty years in Hawaii and she was still working long days as a nurse A short distance from the office they entered a long narrow b

Sister Leopoldina Burns recorded the event many years later when she was more than 65 years old Her English is a bit hard-pressed because she wrote late at night Twenty years in Hawaii and she was still working long days as a nurse nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp

Cambridge MA As readers know I recently completed five entries on Third Nephi the book within the Book of Mormon where Jesus appears thrice and teaches in familar and new ways The fifth entry contains links to all the others As I worked my way through 3 Nephi I increasingly found helpful the

Sister Leopoldina Burns recorded the event many years later when she was more than 65 years old Her English is a bit hard-pressed because she wrote late at night Twenty years in Hawaii and she was still working long days as a nurse A short distance from the office they entered a long narrow b

The Syrian ceasefire is off to a shaky start On Friday morning a four-day ceasefire to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha went into effect The violence had not let up Thursday evening when a Syrian government artillery barrage was reported in the Hajar al-Aswad neighborhood in Damascus The

In the November 5 issue of America we report on the synod on the new evangelization Here Cardinal Donald Wuerl the archbishop of Washington and the synod s relator offers some answers to basic questions about this effort nbsp What is the Synod for the New Evangelization As the Second Vatic

We are happy to have this report from John W O Malley S J on the recent publication of the diaries of Cardinal Roberto Tucci Over the course of the years I have met Cardinal Tucci a number of times but only briefly and in passing I have always admired him and of course read with great inter

This week marks the 90th anniversary of the March on Rome In late October of 1922 Benito Mussolini rsquo s Blackshirts mobilized across Italy to march on the capital and demand power By the time they arrived on October 29 the Italian government had caved to Fascist demands in order to avoid a vi

I remain dismayed by Robert George rsquo s sustained inability to engage On All of Our Shoulders with anything but a partisan lens nbsp Perhaps he is so committed to the Republican Party as political vehicle to advance his deeply held moral priories he can only see any challenge to its current Ca

Cambridge MA As readers know I recently completed five entries on Third Nephi the book within the Book of Mormon where Jesus appears thrice and teaches in familar and new ways The fifth entry which contains links to all the others is here As I worked my way through 3 Nephi I increasingly f

A pair of recent surveys dissected once again the presumably influential Catholic vote as the nation closes in on the Nov 6 presidential showdown The surveys suggest U S Catholics follow their political bliss much as the rest of the nation does and despite such seeming non-negotiables as abortion

Once again we are pleased to have debate analysis from Robert David Sullivan My quick analysis before diving into Twitter and the blogosphere Once again Moderate Mitt made it through a presidential debate without getting unmasked or unmoored by President Barack Obama Romney used his closing s

Tonight rsquo s debate moderator CBS News rsquo Bob Scheiffer did ask about the use of drones but failed to press either candidate on the controversial issue Here rsquo s the question Let me ask you Governor because we know President Obama s position on this what is -- what is your positi

Just posted a special podcast with Costas Panagopoulos who offers advice on reading the presidential polls Professor Panagopoulos is director of Fordham University s Center for Electoral Politics and Democracy nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Podcast Powered By Podbean

These photos comes courtesy of Dan Groody C S C of the University of Notre Dame who recently traveled to Turkey to meet with Syrian refugees You can read his report here nbsp nbsp

Salon runs an excerpt of the book Faitheist How an Atheist Found Common Ground With the Religious in which the author explores atheist fundamentalism Our conversation continued and I offered up petitions that the positive contributions of religious people be considered with equal weight alongs

How we grounded our daughters in faith

Readers respond to Bishop Emil A. Wcela's call for women deacons (Oct. 1)