clap your hands Here s the neat takeaway from Rod Dreher registering his disgust at Real Clear Religion as the applauseometer jumped when Gov Rick Perry defended Texas indefensible record on capital punishment It is worth contemplating why it is that conservatives who believe the government

Today NPR offered a beautiful tribute to Franciscan Father Mychal Judge through the stories of one man who knew him mdash and one man who didn t Both were deeply affected by Judge s life and actions The piece includes an excerpt of the homily given by Father Michael Duffy also a Franciscan In t

This music video is floating through the byways of Facebook these days It has absolutely nothing to do with 9 11 nothing but something of the spirit of it captures my own hopes for our world 10 years later nbsp And if you need yet another 9 11 piece to read I wrote this for Eureka Stree

While the nbsp topic shouldn t overshadow the magnitude of the memorial services I agree with the much of the criticism over the exclusion of clergy from the official 9 11 ceremony in New York City nbsp An article in the New York Times Omitting Clergy at 9 11 Ceremony Prompts Protest nbsp by

It seems hard to believe but it was only a couple months ago that celebrity Donald Trump was flirting with running for the GOP nomination for president when he was thoroughly humiliated by President Obama at the White House Correspondent s Dinner ldquo For example ndash no seriously ndash rec

From America s issue of Oct 1 2001 On Sept 13 two days after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center I made my way to one of the emergency trauma centers in Manhattan It had been hastily set up in a cavernous sports facility called Chelsea Piers on the Hudson River I had been there ea

Dan Gheno an artist whose paintings were featured in the 9 11 issue of America recently stopped by America house to offer a reflection about art as a meditation on grief and to discuss the imagery in his work

Talking with Vatican Radio on 9 11 and the spiritual legacy of Ground Zero

The nbsp inspiring story of the New England Jesuits who founded and ran Baghdad College that city s premier high school for several decades is well known to Jesuits nbsp The Society was summarily kicked out of the country when the Baath party came to power nbsp nbsp The school s nbsp alumni

As a threatened U N showdown over Palestinian statehood approaches are tensions on the rise between settlers and Palestinians on the West Bank Recent Israeli approval of hundreds of new housing units for settlers has needless to say irritated Palestinians who remain committed to the two-state opt

If one has been the victim of a profoundly evil act how does one mdash or rather how should one mdash respond By a profoundly evil act I do not mean that one is simply the recipient of some unkindness that chafes but is quickly healed but truly the recipient of a life-altering injustice so

If one has been the victim of a profoundly evil act how does one mdash or rather how should one mdash respond By a profoundly evil act I do not mean that one is simply the recipient of some unkindness that chafes but is quickly healed but truly the recipient of a life-altering injustice someth

Monsignor Charles Pope of the Archdiocese of Washington wrote an online post on September 1 which stated that ldquo Jesus Was no ldquo Girlie-man rdquo On Restoring a Truer Vision of the Biblical Jesus from the 20th Century Remake rdquo In this article Monsignor Pope claims that images of Jes

The great Protestant theologian Karl Barth is purported to have said A preacher needs a newspaper in one hand and a Bible inthe other As someone who dabbles in both news and theology I take Barth s point to be that for Christians neither realm should exist without the other the world should be

The USCCB Labor Day statement as usual makes for excellent reading and reflection on this holiday ndash even in the absence of the keen analysis of Monsignor Higgins Rightly the primary focus of ldquo Human Costs and Moral Challenges of a Broken Economy rdquo is on the workers whose lives ha

On a spectacularly fine day last week I was taking my dog Sunny for her morning walk nbsp Down the hill and across Warburton Bridge we went so I could glory in the beautiful view of the Hudson River nbsp In the middle of the bridge on the opposite side an attractive young male also seemed raptl

At the celebration of Dan Berrigan S J s 85th birthday five years ago nbsp Ad multos annos Dan at St Ignatius of Loyola parish in New York City singer Natalie Merchant performed a classic union song Which Side Are You On nbsp The song made more popular by Pete Seeger in the 1940s bu

Cambridge MA The following has been written for posting on a 9 11 remembrance board at Harvard Divinity School At Christmas 2000 I preached on the version of the birth of Jesus we find in the holy Qur rsquo an ldquo The new-born baby said lsquo Lo I am God rsquo s servant God has given m

ldquo All you need is love rdquo sang the Beatles and we should not overlook the fact that Jesus and Paul were singing the same song as John and Paul far earlier and from a song sheet developed in ancient Israel Admittedly the early Christians developed the tune in a particular manner riffing

I wrote about my experience visiting a medical school anatomy lab a while ago and I described how viewing human bodies in such intimate detail caused me to consider the spiritual and epistemological dimensions of human life One Catholic medical school in Chicago also recognizes the spiritual dimen