Why it is not about small government

Twelve essays on faith and academic life

Are some bishops putting the church's tax exempt status at risk?

I just finished reading and studying an important book which is quite germane in the middle of an election-year campaign What Money Can t Buy The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael Sandel Farrar Strauss and Giroux 2012 Sandel a gifted teacher and political philosopher who teaches at Harvard

From the London Tablet July 22 2012 The death of Eva Rausing the wife of billionaire Tetra Pak heir Hans Kristian Rausing has grabbed the headlines in the same way as the tragedies of singers Amy Winehouse and Whitney Houston People are both horrified and fascinated to learn that rich often t

Just posted to our Web site a look at a Jesuit mission on the Lakota Sioux reservation in South Dakota If you are looking for hope in South Dakota you do not look at numbers and percents and totals Among the native Lakota people social issues like alcohol drug abuse and teen suicide rack up

Here are the lyrics to Hank Thompson rsquo s Wild Side of Life In 1952 it was 1 for 15 weeks on Billboard rsquo s Country Charts You wouldn rsquo t read my letter if I wrote you You asked me not to call you on the phone But there rsquo s something I rsquo m wanting to tell you So I wrote it in t

To take in the tumult provoked by the death of Arthur Prince of Wales the first born son of King Henry VII and of his wife Elizabeth of York early in 15th century Tudor England combine the affection currently felt for Prince William with the fear for the future engendered by the death of John K

I rsquo ve never eaten at Chik-fil-A and I don rsquo t plan to go out of my way for fast-food fried chicken but many people seem quite nbsp enamored by their menu offerings and thus conflicted when deciding to boycott the company Why the boycott Chik-fil-A is a restaurant chain owned by Souther

Melbourne As my first diary indicated I am enjoying my first visit to Australia and this week expanded my horizons beyond Melbourne I spent last weekend in Sydney a city with a truly beautiful harbor and famed for the Opera House and Harbor Bridge It was cold too and rainy But such was ju

Bishop Leonard Blair of Toledo who conducted the Vatican s doctrinal assessment of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious appeared on NPR s Fresh Air in the second part of the program s look at the LCWR nbsp Here is the full interview with Terry Gross in which Bishop Blair stated his be

The following is a guest reflection from Sr Camille D Arienzo R S M a journalist author radio commentator and Sister of Mercy living in the Diocese of Brooklyn N Y Newsday rsquo s front page story about a nun killed by a hit-and-run driver on a country road in Water Mill N Y included a p

I had the privilege last month of hearing a talk from Dr Carolyn Woo the president of Catholic Relief Services in which she highlighted the collaborative efforts of CRS across the world as it helps to alleviate global poverty CRS an organization that has inspired me for many years is the offic

This is about the need for dialogue in the church The springboard consists of two essays I read recently that dealt indirectly with women rsquo s ordination but the real topic was the effort of two great American bishops who courageously pursued the discussion They sensed that the ordinat

Msgr William J Lynn of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia was sentenced to 3 to 6 years in state prison today for child endangerment by a judge who said he turned a blind eye while monsters in clerical garb sexually abused children and devastated the church and community You knew full well what w

ldquo Weep with those who weep rdquo says St Paul in Romans 12 nbsp Not only in Aurora Colorado is this command followed nbsp Human beings have evolved to be intuitively affected by the emotions of others nbsp Mysterious nbsp ldquo mirror neurons rdquo in the brain instantly provide empathe

One of the great figures in Jesuit history has died nbsp On Sunday Vincent T O rsquo Keefe S J died at age 92 at the Jesuit infirmary at Fordham University in New York nbsp ldquo Vinnie rdquo as he was almost universally known was not only a former president of Fordham 1963-196

We are pleased to post this guest blog from Thomas A Shannon Shannon is professor emeritus of religion and social ethics in the department of humanities and arts at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts The terrible tragedy last week in Aurora CO ironically just miles from the site

I am not a political person nbsp I do not follow say political campaigns or the ins and outs of various pieces of legislation as closely as some of my friends do nbsp But I am a religious person nbsp Many of my political opinions then are formed by my religious ideals for example a com