William Van Ornum

Ninety years ago this week Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment mdash giving women a right to vote that should have been inalienable This week Joanne Gavin continues apace in co-authoring her third book Live Your Dreams Change Your World a powerful guide for women that

Blessed are the peacemakers we Christians are told in our marching orders Too many times we don t recognize individuals as peacemakers until after they have died and we fail to recognize peacemaking efforts from individuals we are accustomed to reading about every day About a week ago I wrote

Manhattan is history A block from where I stood was the Plaza Hotel–Saturday brunches red-jacketed doormen and Eloise Due North stood Central Park Walking west on 56th Street I was fortunate to be heading toward AMERICA House for a visit Once inside a great tradition welcomes you A framed

Father Drew Christiansen s recent Of Many Things included a sentence deeply relevant to the psychology theology and politics of conflict resolution ldquo International lawyers and human rights advocates are often adamant that those who violated the peace need to be punished whereas profession

Back in the 60s when there was no Facebook and no iPhones teens had to handle their free time differently For the nerdish among them there were always good philosophy books to read That rsquo s how I happened to be reading the play Huis Clos rdquo No Exit by John Paul Sartre Although much

ldquo Ever since childhood when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it rdquo Paul Theroux and I share this memory only I lived near the tracks of the Chicago and North Western ldquo Those whistles sing bewitchment railways

In loving memory of the feast of St Ignatius on July 31 may I suggest a visit to the good Jesuits buried at the former St Andrew s Seminary now the Culinary Institute of America The institute is on Route 9 in Hyde Park New York Among those buried there is the paleontologist Teilhard de Chardi

Certainly America and in large part the profession of psychology advocates for fair treatment and equal opportunity for women in the Church and society But even despite laws and efforts of many people of goodwill inequities exist The 20th century was replete with movements across the globe to f

Few readers of this magazine will dispute the editorial opinion on July 5 noting the Supreme Court rsquo s extension of Roper v Simmons 1995 The current ruling stipulates that sentencing a juvenile to life without parole for a non-homicide offense violates the 8th Amendment ban on cruel and unus

Bishop Hubbard Howard Albany NY and Bishop William Murphy Rockville Centre NY share leadership for the United States Catholic Bishop rsquo s Conference Department of Justice Peace and Development ldquo It is a bifurcated committee rdquo said Hubbard ldquo where my staff focus on intern