Drew Christiansen

Last week after a long battle with cancer Professor Michael Signer of the University of Notre Dame passed on With him died a very special sensibility In Jewish-Catholic relations Michael was a catalyst drawing the best from both sides For nearly 20 years I have participated in the national Cat

Ingmar Bergman s brooding film Winter Light may have given winter a bad name Certainly the long darkness of the arctic north can weigh on the soul and even residents of temperate climes can suffer from cabin fever when winter passes through the tunnel months of February and March when the sea

Disproportion in warfare is sometimes a simple matter of commonsense As Justice Potter Stewart wrote of hardcore pornography ldquo I know it when I see it rdquo We don rsquo t need philosophers and moral theologians to define it for us When we heard in Vietnam that ldquo We destroyed the vill

The Holocaust was an evil of enormous proportions In the West at least it has become an iconic horror and in the face of similar atrocities much intellectual labor has been expended to sustain its unique standing in the popular imagination as the evil par excellence Comparisons and analogies a

Avery Dulles Disciple of Jesus A version of this nbsp post nbsp will appear in the Jan 5 version of the magazine Cardinal Avery Dulles S J died December 12 2008 nbsp after a long illness A prolific author Cardinal Dulles rsquo s most influential work was perhaps Models of the Church 19