Check it out nbsp a new resource specifically designed for Catholic women nbsp just launched by St Anthony Messenger Press which combines books reading guides CDs online author interviews and even e-greetings nbsp nbsp They ve done a fine job of creating a good nbsp resource for individu

John McCain and the Republicans have two problems when they address the meltdown on Wall Street and both of those problems will now be with them through the end of the campaign Fortunately for them the Democrats have an uncanny ability to lose an election that should be a walk in the park The

Dean Hoge whose exacting timely and provocative sociological studies helped nbsp the world nbsp better understand American Catholicism nbsp and a frequent and valued contributor to America magazine has died at age 71 nbsp There is a fine obituary by Tom Fox in NCR nbsp Here is NCR nbsp

The Big Mo may have just shifted again The implosion of the financial markets which former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recently called by far the worst economic crisis in his lifetime has once again made the economy issue 1 in the presidential race While the demise of Lehman Br

A correspondent in Zimbabwe a social worker writes A power-sharing deal between the MDC and Zanu PF has been agreed This is not what Zimbabweans voted for but it seems we must make the best of it if we are to save the country from complete ruin The very people who designed and implemented the

The campaign took a sudden turn back to reality yesterday For weeks we were treated to discussions of who was and was not a celebrity lipstick on pigs bridges to nowhere and the such Yesterday with the Lehman Brothers rsquo bankruptcy bargain basement sale of Merrill Lynch and the collapse

Here s the new trailer for the film Doubt starring Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman based on the Pulitzer-Prize-winning play by John Patrick Shanley The new movie focuses on a Catholic priest Hoffman accused of sexual improprieties by a sister Streep in 1964 The film will be o

Last night on AMC rsquo s hit drama ldquo Mad Men rdquo Father Gill the young Jesuit priest who has parked himself at the local parish returned for what is supposed to be the second part in a three-part story ldquo arc rdquo And you had to feel a little sorry for his parishioners First off

The death of David Foster Wallace who apparently took his own life last week is a permanent and perhaps underappreciated deep loss for theology in general and Catholic theology in particular As the commentary about his life and work over the last several days has begun to spell out Wallace s

The Sunday morning news shows ndash NBC rsquo s Meet the Press ABC rsquo s This Week amp c ndash are not actually watched by that many people But their power comes from two distinct sources First they interview people who actually make news Second they are watched by local news affiliat

At the Mass for the Sick which Pope Benedict celebrated in Lourdes France this morning nbsp he seemed to downplay the importance of miracle physical cures in nbsp favour of the idea of healing as an experience of God ldquo How many come here to see it with the hope ndash secretly perhaps nda

Like many of my contemporaries I eagerly read The Divine Milieu in the early 1960s as soon as it was translated into English I recall being inspired by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin rsquo s bold and sweeping vision It was the first time I had ever been exposed to such a radical and optimistic Chris

A Christian scientist frames a national debate.

Catholic universities and the search for meaning

A surprising new foreign policy from the Bush administration

The controversy over teaching evolution spread to Florida in late 2007 as a committee of 61 people—nearly all scientists and science educators—labored over new standards for science instruction in the state’s K-12 public schools. The climax was reached on Feb. 19, 2008, when the St

Dorothy Day and America

Martin Marty rsquo s new book appears in a series called ldquo Modern Library Chronicles rdquo which includes similarly concise volumes on such complex subjects as the Renaissance Shakespeare and the Catholic Church by authors as redoubtable as Paul Johnson Frank Kermode and Hans K uuml ng Tr

Young Politicians, Risky Business, The U.N.'s Agenda