Sunday in the New York Times columnist Frank Rich added his voice to the growing number of analysts seeing little substantial change in the way politics is doing business since Barack Obama took office last January Rich s particular concern like that of Thomas Frank in the Wall Street Journal la

Cambridge MA As readers of this blog know I am quite interested in interreligious dialogue and in learning from Hindu traditions I have been blessed with many Hindu friends over the years and many of these have also challenged me and raised difficult questions that were good for me to answer

While the U S media was burning through precious fossil fuels dedicating megawatts to Obama s OLYMPIAN FAILURE Wonderful Copenhagen my left foot and David Letterman s news of the weird other things were happening on the planet that you might find of interest Two young Iranians were detai

The second reading for the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time raises a couple of questions even prior to an examination of content One is the reading itself as presented in the lectionary which omits what seems to be a crucial phrase from verse 9 Two is how the reading fits in the context of the Old Tes

One of our newest Culture writers is Fr Terrance W Klein an associate nbsp professor of theology at Fordham University and author of the book Vanity Faith Searching for Spirituality Among the Stars nbsp He also wrote last week s review on Mad Men nbsp likening nbsp the hit AMC series nbsp t

An editorial in the current issue of America worries that the Obama administration is laying the groundwork to dismiss the Goldstone Report This is the UN-sponsored analysis of the War in Gaza that suggests war crimes and crimes against humanity were perpetrated by the Israeli military forces Th

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Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good CACG the progressive lay-run organization that has become a key conduit for Catholic concerns to the Obama administration and a principal advocate for Obama rsquo s health care reform effort in Catholic circles hosted a panel last night at the National P

Three years ago I helped organize a week-long series of lectures workshops even artistic events at Loyola Marymount University around the topic of ldquo Environmental Responsibility rdquo During that week we premiered Laurie David rsquo s HBO documentary on global warming Too Hot Not to Han

The public option failed to clear the Senate Finance Committee yesterday which may or may not result in its exclusion from the final bill The health care reform effort is still a work in progress Once out of the Finance Committee the bill will go to the floor of the Senate where it will be in c

New media has been credited with getting the story out in Iran after government censorship shut off mainstream journalism Here s a little indication that it can also be put to less-to-no good during periods of chaos and drama as Honduras is currently experiencing Father Ismael Moreno S J and hi

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In our latest addition to our online Books amp Culture section Rev Robert E Lauder places Alice McDermott in the great pantheon of great Catholic writers Father Lauder a professor of philosophy at St John s University in New York compares McDemott s fiction to giants of the 20th century lik

H Res 441 In the House of Representatives U S September 22 2009 Whereas the social cultural and political contributions of Catholic sisters have played a vital role in shaping life in the United States Whereas such women have joined in unique forms of intentional communitarian life dedica

Suddenly for the first time in President Obama rsquo s presidency foreign affairs have leap-frogged over a host of domestic issues that had dominated news coverage and national attention since he took office in January The economic meltdown and health care reform have been front and center with

Tom Reese took the words right out of my mouth nbsp When I read the New York Times story about Roman Polanski s arrest in Switzerland for having raped a 13-year old girl in 1977 I thought if he nbsp were in a collar there would be no boo-hooing about his recent nbsp plight nbsp nbsp There woul

In an implicit rebuttal nbsp to Cardinal Sean O Malley s presiding at the funeral of Senator nbsp Edward M nbsp Kennedy as well as a more overt rebuke to the Obama administration Arcbishop Raymond Burke addressed the question of how the church should respond to nbsp Catholics in public life who d