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Signs Of the Times
Peace talks were scheduled to begin on Oct. 5 in Norway, between the Colombian government and members of the F.A.R.C. guerrillas.
Signs Of the Times
On Oct. 20 the Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) Vatican Foundation will honor the American Jesuit Brian E. Daley, a professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame.
Books
Nadime Gordimer explores the complexities and contradictions of life in today's South Africa.
FaithFaith in Focus
How can you say to a complete stranger, a trusted teacher, a college classmate: “We’re infertile”?
In All Things
We are happy to have this on-the-ground report from Dan Groody C S C of the University of Notre Dame TURKEY--The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that the number of Syrians fleeing their country rsquo s violent conflict could number up to 700 000 by year rsquo s end and 1
In All Things
One of the most interesting stories of the year in labor relations at Catholic institutions has been the movement of adjunct faculty to organize in unions Last month Pittsburgh rsquo s Duquesne University adjunct faculty voted 50 to 9 in favor of forming a union affiliated with the United Steelwork
In All Things
More than eleven years after the attacks of Sept 11 2001 claimed the lives of their family members nine people traveled to Guant aacute namo Bay Cuba Oct 15-19 to attend the pre-trial hearings of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and five others accused of organizing and financing the attacks The defen
The Good Word
We all have our favorite gospel I like Luke for his story telling and his stress on women and the marginalized Matthew for his focus on the gentile converts John for his theology his focus on Jesus as the lsquo word rsquo of God and his play on light darkness And today rsquo s author Mark
In All Things
Last Tuesday Oct 30 the Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone announced that Pope Benedict XIV is sending a delegation of high-ranking churchmen on a mission of solidarity to Syria The seven-man delegation is exceptional not only for its size but for the experience of its member
In All Things
Last night I was privileged to have been invited to the 67th annual Al Smith Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria only a few blocks away from our office Needless to say at 2 500 a seat I was someone s guest nbsp Most people may know the dinner nbsp as the occasion for the nbsp two p
In All Things
Cambridge MA This is the last of the reflections I am posting on 3 Nephi the book within the Book of Mormon where Jesus appears three times shortly after the Resurrection to a remnant community in a new land that is taken to be though of course never named as America You can find the others
The Good Word
There rsquo s something similar to ourselves in a saint something quite strange as well We heed our own humanity in a holy one but the familiar flows into the foreign It rsquo s as though in our encounter with the saint we espy two presences rather than one The person we see and another whom w
FaithThe Good Word
Like her Christ, Kateri took the apparently senseless suffering and death that is the lot of any human being and gave it meaning.
In All Things
My friends from Christ in the Desert Monastery in Abiquiu NM visited The Today Show nbsp this morning nbsp to promote their new album aptly called Monks in the Desert nbsp Funny enough I have a simpler version of their lovely chants which I listen to quite frequently nbsp The prior had
In All Things
Last night I stood outside the Media Operations Center in the darkness and quiet of the night It was nearly 2 00 a m and I was all alone It was my first experience of solitude peace and prayer since arriving at Guant aacute namo Bay Cuba two days earlier So far the whole experience of being
In All Things
When I heard that Robert George McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University offered a critique of On All of Our Shoulders A Catholic Call to Protect the Endangered Common Good my pulse raced a bit nbsp The debate had been joined nbsp As a contributor to and signer of the doc
In All Things
When I heard that Robert George McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University offered a critique of On All of Our Shoulders A Catholic Call to Protect the Endangered Common Good my pulse raced a bit nbsp The debate had been joined nbsp As a contributor to and signer of the doc
In All Things
Once again we are pleased to have debate analysis from Robert David Sullivan My quick analysis before diving into Twitter and the blogosphere I suspect that President Obama will get a little jump in the polls over the next few days but mainly as a reaction to the ldquo Wow Romney might actual