Sarah Palin rsquo s twisted family vacation ldquo Let rsquo s load up the PAC-sponsored lsquo Restore America Sarah Palin rsquo luxury bus kids rdquo has taken her from Washington DC up to New Hampshire where she attended a barbeque the same day that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Ro

Hyde Park Chicago Perhaps the news is no worse right now than in past weeks perhaps an early summer heat wave here in Chicago where I am participating in an American Academy of Religion seminar on theologies of religious pluralism and comparative theology more on this in a future blog only ma

Just posted online a new batch of Signs of the Times stories We ll be posting new SOT items every week over the summer The first item concerns adoption services in the Catholic diocese of Rockford Ill The Diocese of Rockford has announced that its Catholic Charities offices will no longer off

A truly scary warning from Moody rsquo s Investor Services was issued yesterday but if the credit rating service hoped to end the brinkmanship over the U S debt ceiling it appears so far to have succeeded only in provoking deeper heel-digging in Congress Moody s said June 2 that ldquo if there

You won rsquo t be surprised to discover that we get all kinds of crazy letters here nbsp And I don rsquo t mean simply letters that seem odd or strange or even letters that I don t fully understand mdash I mean crazy nbsp As a Jesuit friend told me last night ldquo No nut like a religious nu

We usually focus on the Visitation Luke 1 39-56 due to the extraordinary meeting not only between Elizabeth and Mary but between Jesus and John both still in the womb It is a nascent meeting of the key players in the culmination of salvation-history Yet it is also important to see this at the

At Elizabeth Taylor rsquo s funeral in March the actor Colin Farrell read ldquo The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo rdquo by the English Jesuit priest and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844-1889 The poem was reported to be among the late actress rsquo s favorites nbsp In a special addition to o

Today is the Feast of St Charles Lwanga and Companions also known as the Ugandan Martyrs or the African Martyrs nbsp The story is not particularly well known in the United States but in Africa the martyrs are an important part of the Catholic and Anglican tradition nbsp During my time wit

Even as the North and South Sudan sought to extricate themselves from the crisis in Abyei more evidence emerged today that violence will prove a plague on both sides of Sudan s border Citing confidential U N documents it has acquired the Associated Press is reporting that Southern Sudan soldiers

Our blogger Vince Miller has pledged to take up this question in his next blog post but meanwhile here is a reflection from Stephen Schneck at Catholic U The root of the word subsidiarity is the Latin subsiduum which is also the same root for our English word subsidy Subsiduum was used among o

Loyola Productions has just released this video online a segment from the DVD Who Cares about the Saints nbsp A brief introduction to the life and times of Fr M Louis Merton OCSO

Gallup released a poll on the morality of a slew of issues and doctor-assisted suicide emerges as the most controversial cultural issue According to the poll 45 of Americans think physician-assisted suicide is morally acceptable while 48 say it is not Interestingly this number remains somew

An extensive and well-reported review on the Newshour of the Vatican AIDS Conference with interviews with some key figures

A Tijuana priest missing for over a week has become the latest casualty of the growing violence in Mexico Fides reports that Father Salvador Ruiz Enciso 51 disappeared from his parish in the city of Tijuana northern Mexico near the border with the United States DNA from a body found May 23 bu

Archbishop Dolan has a post on his blog that attempts to balance the damage done by Republican use of his cordial response to Congressman Ryan nbsp While the Archbishop offers a clear articulation of Catholic commitment to the common good and the preferential option for the poor and very nicely y

From Mensaje magazine via Mirada Global ldquo Obama rsquo s useless trip rdquo was the title that Spanish newspaper El Pa iacute s used to summarize the overall impression after U S President rsquo s trip to Latin America last March While it was intended to become a re-foundational moment in th

For purposes of discussion let us define ldquo love rdquo not in sense of romance but in the more philosophical definition of nbsp ldquo wishing the other well rdquo In this way of thinking to love Israel is to feel a moral commitment to its future and then to advise it mdash as we would ad

In a defeat for both the Catholic Church and the government just over half of the voters of the Mediterranean island of Malta pop 412 000 voted Saturday to allow divorce Malta is the last European country -- and one of the few left in the world -- where divorce is illegal The Prime Minister L

In Jesuit life, one finds connections all over the world.

Care and compassion can rarely happen in the abstract.