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

The end of the Catholic vote as we have known it

Too many people seeking asylum are turned away

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

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

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

'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

Marilynne Robinson's 'Home,' reviewed

Dexter Filkins' 'The Forever War,' reviewed

A play about Dorothy Day

Mark has divided his work literarily now into three units each headed by Jesus prophecy that he will be killed and will rise from the dead In the first literary unit these is the Transfiguration story which we spoke of in no 27 There are two more stories to hear now The first has to do w

Marx s Capital is back on the bookshelves in Germany -- but the Marx in question is a Catholic bishop And while his book is a response to the crisis of capitalism the revolution he is calling for has more to do with Rerum Novarum 1891 than Das Kapital 1867 nbsp You ve got to hand it to th

One of the best aces in the hole for the Republican party has been their Get-Out-The-Vote GOTV operation In 2004 I was working on a congressional race and the final weekend an independent poll had the race tied but we lost by 8 points because the GOP deployed their famed 72-hour plan Karl Rove