May we hope that all faiths can forever put behind them the use of censorship or violence against writers in the defense of religion.

'Perhaps the visions of Benedict and Obama can coincide.'

They were nearly all Islanders on the Pequod rdquo Herman Melville famously wrote ldquo Isolatoes too I call such not acknowledging the common continent of men but each Isolato living on a separate continent of his own rdquo But whereas Melville rsquo s multicultural whalers were ldquo fed

Why the pro-life movement should return to its roots

Wheat That Springeth Green Bob Peace (“The Food on Our Tables,” 1/19) has the right to say what he wants about farm subsidies and working conditions for farm laborers in the United States, but there is injustice in every phase of business, in every phase of society and in every phase of

An appreciation of a Christian man of letters.

Race, religion and the 2008 election

'The Aryan Jesus,' reviewed

A personal perspective on the abortion debate

New Relief Effort on U.S./Mexico Border When Leoba Marcos crossed the Sonoran desert in northern Mexico earlier this year, she did not know what to expect. She made her way in early January with a group of about 20 people, including her husband, 13-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter. It was the se

The duty to protect and the perils of Vitamin Water

Berry Gordy, Jr. and the African-American experience

Sen Sherrod Brown of Ohio had to fly back to Washington last night to cast the necessary vote for the stimulus bill because Sen Ted Kennedy was too ill to come to the floor nbsp from the hospital Did it not occur to any of the GOP senators opposing the bill to say Sen Brown stay at your mothe

One of the great human rights advocates of the past few decades Alison Des Forges who worked tirelessly on behalf of the people of Rwanda and was certainly the world s leading expert on the genocide there in 1994 has died in the plane crash outside of Buffalo yesterday evening nbsp If you re

Judd who It is a sign of the self-importance Washington frequently indulges that the Federal City is breathless this morning over the news that Sen Judd Gregg has withdrawn his nomination as the next Commerce Secretary Fingers point on Capitol Hill Screams and shouts on Hardball Big headlines

In the Times of London this week Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O Connor president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales explores how Christianity is compatible with Darwin rsquo s theory of evolution The scientist rsquo s 200th birthday is today ldquo If we see the two science

Pope Benedict XVI met this morning at the Vatican with a delegation from the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations In the wake of his decision to lift the formal excommunications of four Lefebvrist bishops one of whom has denied the Holocaust it was important that Benedict hit th

For those who missed it last week we published three online articles looking at Catholic political activity under a new president In A Change in Tone Thomas A Shannon looks back at the fairly harsh and strident rhetoric employed by some U S bishops prior to the November election and calls

Fans of parliamentary-style democracies will have a lot of explaining to do in the weeks ahead The results in the Israeli elections were inconclusive and it now falls to politicians who were just yesterday competing against one another to enter into negotiations for the formation of a government t