Happy Election Day My American flag is unfurled on the porch and I will be heading over to the Riverdale Elementary School once the morning rush dies down to cast my vote Of course we know now that there is no more election day Almost a third of the ballots have already been cast by early voti

I suspect many of us will be compulsively checking the polls today nbsp If you re looking for a little variety laughter or inspiration I ve put up heaps of great political videos from the last 2 years here including many of Obama s great speeches nbsp nbsp Enjoy nbsp

It seems unfair that we Europeans can t vote in tomorrow s US election -- after all we ve followed every twist and turn of the campaign and it s not as if we ll be unaffected by the result Anxious for a substitute I ve written nbsp an article for the British Jesuit online journal Th

As part of the Year of St Paul America has produced a short comedy sketch about two teenagers in ancient Corinth who do a cable access TV show in which they interview Sts Paul and Peter about who is more Christian nbsp It s our first effort at a sketch-type piece and it stars our very own Re

There is no shortage of stupid campaign decisions outrageously sleazy tactics candidate meltdowns and pitifully evasive debate replies Picking the best ndash or is it worst ndash such example is difficult because as they say in the military the environment is target rich But here goes T

Too many people seeking asylum are turned away

Reading Catholic and Feminist has been a strange experience The book centers on the years between 1960 and 1980 a two-decade slice of American Catholicism as lived by women and a few men trying to be true to their faith and their feminism The strangeness I felt stems from my coming of age durin

Sovereignty is one of the most contested and yet indeterminate concepts in the field of political science The casual observer will know that it has something to do with ldquo unity of power rdquo ldquo legitimate right to govern rdquo and ldquo absolute control of territory rdquo but may st

Encourage Savings, Gekko & Aquinas

Learning to love, not hate, after 9/11

Security Stepped Up for Christians in Mosul Increased security aimed at preventing further attacks on Christians in the Iraqi city of Mosul might have come too late to halt an exodus of refugees, said an Iraqi archbishop. The Iraqi government has deployed extra police on the streets of the northern

Marilynne Robinson's 'Home,' reviewed

Dexter Filkins' 'The Forever War,' reviewed

'No one needs to be told that newspapers are nearing their end days.'

Remembering Jon Hassler, the author of grace-filled Catholic fiction.

Historical Precedents In his guest editorial, “Racism and the Election” (10/27), Bishop Blase Cupich was correct to remind us of Archbishop Joseph Rummel, the courageous archbishop of New Orleans who in 1962 publicly excommunicated three Catholics, including a politician, for supporting

John W. O'Malley's 'What Happened at Vatican II,' reviewed

A play about Dorothy Day

The end of the Catholic vote as we have known it