Leonard Peltier the Native American activist who is serving consecutive life terms for allegedly killing two FBI agents faced a parole hearing on July 28 20009 the first full hearing in 15 years nbsp In mid- August however the parole commission denied his request for parole nbsp Peltier n

The public option is ldquo an option rdquo No one would be forced into it Rather it would be offered along with other choices in what has been called ldquo a health insurance exchange rdquo The benefit of an exchange is that it would allow consumers to compare plans and then to choose for th

Watching the funeral cortege of Sen Edward M Kennedy wind its way up Route 6 then Route 3 and finally through the streets of Boston I could not help thinking that eloquence of the common man when it manifests itself far outstrips any words we writers have to offer Along the highway still an

nbsp Our own Matt Malone SJ who will soon and sadly for us be departing the magazine for theology studies in preparation for ordination appears on NET the Brooklyn diocese s new web channel speaking about Sen Kennedy nbsp Matt is humble about his political acumen and background he worked

A few years ago a reading group to which I belong took on the task of reading The City of God by St Augustine Every Friday we would meet to discuss the twenty pages we had set for ourselves that week the next week we would move on to the next twenty pages By the time the academic year was windi

A 50-year-old woman suffering from a form of motor neurone disease who has been wheelchair-bound since 2005 now walks again after bathing in Lourdes -- and her doctor is stunned The Italian press is carrying the story -- eg Corriere here -- and there s Spanish coverage here As usual such stories

nbsp We ve gotten thousands of hits and a boatload of letters on this week s two nbsp cover stories by Bishop John D Arcy and John Quinn on the Notre Dame affair nbsp Some you can already read at the close of each of the articles others we will publish in later editions of the magazine nbsp F

ldquo hellip the difficult yet noble art of politics rdquo nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp This phrase from Vatican II Gaudium et Spes No 75 nbsp comes to mind as we remember Senator Ted Kennedy nbsp nbsp The Council encourages those with ta

The five obstacles to health care reform named in the America editorial of Aug 31-Sept 7 is hardly an exhaustive list Other obstacles keep getting in the way I rsquo ve identified five more below 1 Distrust of government Andrew Kohut president of the PEW Research Center asked rhetorically w

Senator Edward M Kennedy was far from the perfect man nbsp In fact his infamous actions at Chappaquiddick Island in 1969 which led to the death of the young Mary Jo Kopechne he called at the time ldquo indefensible rdquo I agree Less remarked-upon nbsp over the last few days nbsp has been

We may still be on a biweekly schedule but we continue to update the Web site every week with new material Father Jim Martin has been keeping our blog readers up to speed on our many online culture offerings And yesterday we posted two new articles on our home page The first deals with the neura

Dan Gilgoff over at US News interviews Adam Clymer Senator Kennedy s biographer on the man s faith Some obituaries today are calling Ted Kennedy a devout Catholic How important was his faith to him personally It meant a great deal to him A friend of his told me how painful it was for him not to t

My father is a very calm imperturbable man We speak just about every morning and his voice only rises when reporting that the Red Sox lost to the Yankees He rarely calls in the evening but he did so last night He had gone to Mass at St Joseph rsquo s Living Center in Windham Connecticut the

Rarely in recent memory has a novel so captivated me mdash even hooked me mdash as Abraham Verghese rsquo s Cutting for Stone I knew the book was getting to me when I began to violate my almost stereotypical routine for reading novels Normally I read a novel each day seriatim for thirty minut

If I were preaching on these readings my main objective would be to avoid re-enforcing the idea strongly if sometime subliminally held by Christians that Jews are almost unavoidably legalistic and hypocritical about their arcane law nbsp It can sound as if Jesus is saying that which I would al

In the summer time we all scream for ice cream as the childhood rhyme goes nbsp But occasionally there are other reasons to scream especially for those who front rock and roll bands The New York Times nbsp recently reported nbsp that a new nbsp album called ldquo Favorite Recorded Scream rdqu

The always-worth-listening-to David Gibson has a fine piece over at Politics Daily on the passing of the Senate s lion nbsp It is tempting to view Ted Kennedy s passing as the end of an era both politically and culturally but also religiously -- the end of a reform-minded socially oriented Cath

Cardinal Sean O Malley OFM Cap the Archbishop of Boston has issued the following statement upon the death of Senator Ted Kennedy Today we mourn the passing of Senator Edward M Kennedy and we extend our heartfelt prayers and sincere condolences to his wife Victoria and their children Kara Ed

The phone rang at 6 03 a m My editors at the Tablet wanted to know if I could write something quickly about the legacy of Sen Ted Kennedy who died this morning The request is not that different from being asked to give a synopsis of World War II or the Pauline Epistles in a couple of hours and

I ll let you make up your mind what exactly is going on nbsp First the story from CNS Vatican official downplays report of planned liturgical reformsBy John ThavisCatholic News ServiceVATICAN CITY CNS -- A Vatican spokesman downplayed a report that major liturgical reforms are being considere