Three states and three different winners Huckabee in Iowa McCain in New Hampshire and now Romney in Michigan This was exactly the situation foreseen and desired by Rudy Giuliani s strategists when they decided to forgo the early states and concentrate only on winner-take-all Florida on January

Cambridge MA Last week I was in Culver City California -- the famed movie town in the midst of Los Angeles I was there to visit the Jesuit Novitiate of the California Province to give a 3-day seminar on interreligious dialogue and related issues to the first year novices of the California and

Former Massachusetts Gov Mitt Romney spent more blood and treasure than any other candidate in both Iowa and New Hampshire but he came in second in both states Today in Michigan where his father George was once a popular Governor he needs a win Romney has the money to continue in the race wh

Over the last several months the news has been full of examples of institutions of higher education led most recently by Harvard changing their tuition policies as a way of reconsidering the negative effects of the exorbitant cost of college education in the United States Is anyone else disapp

As I ve been preparing for a new semester of teaching at Fordham a course on Catholic novels I ve been rereading Flannery O Connor s brilliant essay collection Mystery and Manners One of the essays included in that volume edited by Sally and Robert Fitzgerald was originally published

With the blessing of the Holy Father granted the 20th of June 2005 and after having obtained a positive vote from the Assistants for provident care and from the Provincials of the whole Society on the seriousness of the reasons to resign I present now to the judgement of the General Congregation

Sen Hillary Clinton tried to trumpet her political prowess while disparaging the verbal skills of her opponent Sen Barack Obama with a lesson from history Here is what she said Dr King s dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act Now there is no rea

There is a static way of considering the Baptism of the Lord particularly in art and in liturgical story-telling nbsp In these forms the Baptism is looked at or read as a story complete in itself nbsp But the Gospel-writers for all their differences in nbsp describing the event of Jesus

On Meet the Press this morning Senator Hillary Clinton accused her host Tim Russert of being Jesuitical in his argumentation The Jesuit-educated Russert Canisius High School in Buffalo N Y and John Carroll University in Cleveland was pressing Senator Clinton on her 2002 vote to authori

As some of you no doubt noticed author and occasional America contributor Michael Sean Winters has joined the ranks of our bloggers Michael has written for The New Republic and Slate and is the author of the forthcoming Left at the Altar How the Democrats Lost the Catholics and How the Catholic

Pollsters and pundits have been beating themselves up since they failed to predict Hillary Clinton s surprise victory in the New Hampshire primary But the pollsters were not that far off Polls estimated that Barack Obama would receive between 36 and 42 percent of the vote and he captured 36 J

The Wire by far my favorite show on television is now in its fifth and final season on HBO Even if you haven t been watching this sprawling Baltimore-based drama you can catch up with this handy synopsis of seasons 1-4 As I noted in my recent OMT each season of The Wire focuses on a di

Foolish as it would be to look for deep theological insights from The View Joy Behar s recent statements on Catholic saints a not existing any longer and b needing medication was about as close as you could come to a nice Youtubable public display of anti-Catholicism for any who doubt

The affinity of creation theology to the wisdom tradition of Israel has long been recognized However in such study creation regularly has been considered one theme among many and usually one of secondary importance rather than the basis of all theology as is proposed here Furthermore when not d

The exit polls from New Hampshire may keep Mike Huckabee awake tonight We all know that Huckabee won in Iowa because of the big turn-out of born-again and evangelical voters And we all knew that Huckabee would carry the evangelical vote in New Hampshire but still lose the primary because there jus

If you want to see how the evolution of doctrine works in practice look up Avery Cardinal Dulles learned article Who Can Be Saved in February s First Things In a succinct and brisk narrative Dulles describes how Christians developed their theological reflections on salvation from scriptura

America is now accepting submissions for the Foley Poetry Contest Details here Last year we received over 1 000 entries from all over the world The youngest writer was 8 the oldest 89 according to poetry editor James Torrens S J The winner was John Slater a Trappist monk from the Abbey of

The General Congregation has begun with a homily by Cardinal Francis Rode C M prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life It s included here on Creighton s wonderful GC 35 website GC 35 Info The photo is by Don Doll S J a photo