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

Islamic scholars at Jesuit universities

An increasingly popular approach to teaching young people the faith

National Treasures I was delighted to read Bryan Linden-berger’s account of the restoration of Our Lady of Purification church in Doña Ana, N.M., in “A Church Reborn” (8/25). I grew up in nearby Las Cruces, N.M. Our historic churches are truly a national treasure, and many h

The time of fulfillment which Jesus announces can well be understood as the fulfillment of the promise recorded by Jeremiah that God would one day create a new Covenant with His people it reflects the new covenant of the Last Supper a covenant in My blood Such good news is this th

The Mass celebrated today in Lourdes by Pope Benedict XVI brought back memories for me of the one celebrated by Pope John Paul II on his visit in August 2004 As it turned out it was his last foreign trip He was already a very sick man and within a year he would be dead It turned out to be a powe

David Gibson author of The Rule of Benedict and The Coming Catholic Church and a regular blogger on Beliefnet and Dotcommonweal has nbsp a provocative piece nbsp on the abortion wars as a political challenge nbsp The full article ran in The Wall Street Journal on Friday Preview Obscu

The bronze serpent which Moses lifted up in the desert Numbers 21 4-9 becomes a type of the Christ who is to come in the Gospel of John While the bronze serpent held up by Moses heals the Israelites of the snake bite that leads to physical death Jesus upon the cross heals us from the wounds

In July I had the occasion to visit Galveston Texas a city filled with exquisitely beautiful historic churches The co-cathedral of St Mary and Sacred Heart church were my favorites and both are sitting in water this morning after the ravages of Hurricane Ike The cathedral is a small gothic bui

America s special election blog is pleased to welcome Rick Garnett as a conbtributor Rick is a law professor at Nore Dame and a frequent contributor at MirrorofJustice com a blog dedicated to Catholic legal theory You can read his first contribution by clicking here nbsp Michael Sean Winters

The Pope in Paris yesterday gave a speech which will be remembered as one of his most significant not just because of its content ndash nbsp which has recast the current European thinking about freedom and faith ndash but because of its historic context It was made just a few hours after a tw

After placing John the Baptist as the prophet to introduce with divine authority the One who is to come and now embarking on the development of Jesus as Messiah and Son of God how shall Mark actually introduce Jesus Mark fastens on the adult Jesus since the birth stories at least as they

In addition to having a winning message and a biography that allows viewers to envision you are president and a strategy for winning 270 electoral college votes and the ability to bring Catholic swing voters into your column you need to get your voters to the polls You need a ground game dedica

ldquo As Catholics go so goes America rdquo religion scholar and Boston College professor Alan Wolfe recently wrote happily in the blurb for my book The quintessential swing voters for the past 35 years have been white ethnic Catholics living in suburbs in the Northeast and Midwest They we