Senator Barack Obama went fishing for endorsements and landed the equivalent of a thirty-five pound Cape Cod striper Senator Ted Kennedy has decided to endorse Obama the big winner in Saturday s Democratic primary in South Carolina This is big Kennedy s titanic political figure casts a hu

Analysts will spend the next few days sorting through the exit poll data checking crosstabs to determine how and why Barack Obama managed to lap Hillary Clinton beating her by 28 points 55 to 27 in South Carolina s primary But three facts stand out Hillary Clinton lost the female vote

From the latest press release from GC35 Father General Adolfo Nicol s capped an eventful week as the newly elected superior general of the Jesuits with a private audience with His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI The Saturday audience began with a photo session and then the two sat down for a warm

St Luke tells about the conversion then missioning of St Paul on three different occasions Acts 9 22 and 26 nbsp Though the number of details which change in these three accounts is great there is one repeated phrase which runs through them all nbsp Saul Saul why do you persecute Me nb

This essay aired as a commentary on NPR Weekend Edition on Sunday January 6 I watch what I do to see what I really believe Belief and faith are not just words It s one thing for me to say I m a Christian but I have to embody what it means I have to live it So writing this essay and kn

Excerpts from a new interview taken from the CNS wire service with the new Jesuit Superior General in which he dilates on the Jesuits relationship with the Vatican the way that Asia changed him and his admiration for Gandhi ROME CNS by Cindy Wooden -- The obedience affection and

The GOP debate last night lacked the rough-and-tumble of previous such efforts Moderator Tim Russert frustrated at his inability to start a skirmish said afterwards that he felt like the candidates had signed a non-aggression pact before the show This niceness probably helps McCain whose South

Homosexuals says the Catechism of the Catholic Church must be treated with respect compassion and sensitivity Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided No 2358 Would that John Gibson of Fox News applied that dictum equally to the actor Heath Ledger who

When lecturing on Paul s first letter to Corinthians Daniel J Harrington S J my colleague at Weston Jesuit School of Theology tells our students that there are no problems in the Church today that did not exist in some form in the early church at Corinth This insight can be consoling

Bill Clinton had another tantrum yesterday The Clintons ran a highly deceptive radio ad attacking Obama a South Carolina official who supports Obama challenged its veracity and the press asked the former president about it Clinton blamed the Obama campaign for feeding the story to the media a

America has a new online article by Jesuit scholastic Sean Dempsey S J who was recently ordained a deacon and will be ordained a Catholic priest this coming June Dempsey is a pop-culture aficionado extraordinaire a vocation not often found among religious but crucial in my opinion for evang

Mark 3 1-6 the Gospel for today tells of Jesus curing of a withered hand In itself a noteworthy miracle an expression of good will of love But Mark sets the miracle in a context of controversy they continued to watch to see if Jesus would cure on the Sabbath and once he cured t

The 35th General Congregation is the first where the world has been able to follow along nearly in real time--thanks to the Internet--the workings of the Congregation Creighton s website and Don Doll s photos have helped many feel a sense of closeness to the proceedings Pictured above f

The annual March for Life has come and gone One of its more bizarre qualities is the way GOP presidents participate by recorded message or telephone hook-up but never in person This began during Ronald Reagan s presidency when some advisors did not want a photo beamed around the world of Reaga

Though the compilers of the lectionary probably did not have the Presidential primary season in mind when selecting this week s passage from 1 Corinthians it is difficult for me as a resident of South Carolina to read these words from Paul without thinking of electoral politics With the Republ

A brief excerpt and then a link to the full text of Father Adolfo Nicolas s Homily at the Mass of Thanksgiving on Sunday the day after his election as Jesuit Superior General He began by noting that it was not a message for the whole world but instead a simple homily And then this exc

How long should a good homily be That question is often discussed A related question--but one that is not often addressed--is how long goes a homily have to be In other words how short is too short I got to thinking about this question this weekend while visiting a parish in Massachusetts The

This Sunday s first reading is woven explicitly into the Gospel a writer s move recently named intertextuality The practice is ancient though often the intertexts are less clear and more difficult to spot Today we have Isaiah 9 1-2 invited by Matthew into the Gospel at the place now ca

The Republican presidential race turns to Florida s winner-take-all primary one week from today For at least one presidential candidate Florida will be the end of the road the setting of the sun on his presidential ambitions The most likely loser will be Rudy Giuliani He has been out of the