In All Things

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

nbsp and why atheism is a comfortable indulgence Madeleine Bunting nbsp gets it

George W Bush leaves office with some of the lowest approval numbers since the advent of modern polling Of course the first president to achieve historic lows when polling first began Harry S Truman has been treated far more kindly by history Will the same happen to George W Bush For the ne

From AP VATICAN CITY by Nicole Winfield ndash Cardinal Pio Laghi a longtime nbsp Vatican nbsp diplomat who went to Washington to try to dissuade nbsp U S President George W Bush nbsp from launching the2003 invasion of Iraq has died the Vatican said Sunday He was 86 Laghi died Saturday e

The fun goes on The UK advertising nbsp ombudsman nbsp may have to rule on God s existence following a complaint by Christians that a bus poster paid for by atheists violates industry standards In All Things regulars may recall the poster and the British Atheist Bus Campaign controversy which

And why not nbsp James Martin SJ

Governance is a moral act Since the Reagan years the morals enshrined in our nation rsquo s policies have been those values that characterize laissez-faire economics individual responsibility acquisitiveness personal freedom and less government intrusion in corporate decision-making processes

This message was posted on the First Things blog this morning by Joseph Bottum editor of the magazine Fr Richard John Neuhaus slipped away today January 8 shortly before 10 o rsquo clock at the age of seventy-two He never recovered from the weakness that sent him to the hospital the day aft

Word has come via First Things that Father Richard John Neuhaus has died I learned of his serious illness last night and since then have felt like a cat who falls and doesn rsquo t land on all fours disoriented and very sad I remember the first time Father Neuhaus attacked me in print I felt

In the beginning was the Word the Gospel of John tells us a Word without flesh A word wields power to heal to hurt to change to condemn to affirm A word separates us from the animal kingdom A word can civilize and uplift us In the beginning It is the beginning of 2009 We have a lot of