Barack Obama has a problem He has based his campaign on moving past the stale arguments of the past 20 years when the Bush Clinton families have taken turns in the White House America s late Roman empire problem But last week the campaign harkened back to an even earlier time the iden

Mary Gordon's 'Circling My Mother,' reviewed

Violence in Kenya & Pakistan, the Olympics comes to Beijing

With good reason, guardians of republican virtue are sounding alarms over the prospect of another Clinton presidency. Should Hillary Clinton return to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 2009, this time as the principal tenant, and should she receive an extension on that lease, the Clinton and Bush families

Pope attacks the cruelty of Atheism" and Pope Replies to The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins were two of the headlines that greeted Benedict XVIs second encyclical, Saved by Hope (Spe Salvi). An Anglican bishop was more on target when he told me: I welcome this encyclical on Christian hope. Hope is

Faithful Citizens “A Future Without Parish Schools,” by Terry Golway, (12/10) raises a crucially important issue for the future of catechesis in the Catholic Church in the United States. Catholic parish schools have been an extremely important factor in providing for the catechesis of Ca

At the height of the sexual abuse crisis in Boston Cardinal Bernard Law claimed that canon law had prevented him from taking action to protect victims Victims responded Canon law was irrelevant to us Children were being abused Sexual predators were being protected The Boston Globe July 7 200

The political news from Iowa and New Hampshire has undercut the conventional wisdom about our present political culture. The surprisingly decisive victory in Iowa of Barack Obama, an African-American candidate campaigning in a predominantly white state, damaged the image of Hillary Clinton as the in

If I’m ever in a situation where I’m permanently unconscious and unable to eat,” says my father, “I’m begging you: Let me go. I don’t want to be kept alive by a feeding tube.” We are sitting at my parents’ table on a pleasant Sunday morning, with advan

Last November, leaders in Bostons labor-management community gathered for the annual Cushing-Gavin Awards dinner. The neutral award went to Edward Boyle, S.J., a priest who for the past 37 years served as executive secretary of the archdioceses 1,200-member Labor Guild. Boyle died of cancer on Nov.

Here I am at the parting of the ways and I must take the other road after all. The death sentence has been passed and the atmosphere is so charged with enmity and hatred that no appeal has any hope of succeeding. So the whole proceedings turned into a sort of comedy developing a theme. It was not ju

Elizabeth Johnson 8217 s theological talent has flourished in many ways much to the benefit of the academy and the church She is one of the co-creators of a modern theological genre feminist theology and her contributions to this genre one of the most exciting developments in the history of th

Two notable books from 90-year old Jesuits

Pope Addresses Diplomats Addressing diplomats from around the world, Pope Benedict XVI warned that numerous armed conflicts and social disorders have left global stability in a fragile situation. The pope said Jan. 7, that the latest attack on Christian churches in Iraq reflects a continuing climate

The faithful witness of Alfred Delp, S.J.

The rock 'n roll theology of The Hold Steady

Above Father Kolvenbach defers to Father General in the Jesuit Curia dining room Photo Don Doll S J Yesterday the Catholic world was introduced to the new Jesuit Superior General through a variety of resources conversations with Jesuits who have known him he has been described to me as