In All Things

During the campaign Barack Obama got tagged for being too much of a celebrity with a famous ad that displayed images of the then-Senator interspersed with photos of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton So my first thought upon hearing the news that Obama intends to name Dr Sanjay Gupta of CNN fame a

Depends what you mean by criticize nbsp Deal Hudson former editor of Crisis magazine and now director of InsideCatholic com offers a qualified yes here Hudson A Catholic journalist may therefore criticize a bishop in editorial fashion so long as he shows respect for the office maintains

Waltz with Bashir is unlike any other film I have ever seen Both a documentary and an animation film–it is competing for Academy awards for both best animation and best foreign film from Israel–it is a surrealistic often harrowing and deeply thought-provoking film I left the showing literally

Yesterday a friend sent me a copy of The Wanderer from December 4 of last year My posting here suggesting that Doug Kmiec be named the next U S ambassador to the Vatican had made the front page I am deeply honored The Wanderer is a newspaper published in Minnesota that is about as far to th

I never thought I would live to see the day If anyone had any doubts about Barack Obama rsquo s willingness to listen to pro-life Democrats his selection of Virginia Governor Tim Kaine to head the Democratic National Committee should settle those doubts Obama means business Governor Kaine is cle

The recent stories in the press about a new level of official recognition that soldiers bring their war traumas back with them and often hurt themselves or others as well as the recent articles in America about military chaplains have put me in mind of my own work with the military In the fall

John Tierney s column in the N Y Times Science pages 12 30 08 describes the new psychological findings that people who are religiously devout have more self-control than others It s old news that religious people tend to do better in school live longer have more satisfying marriages and

This morning s Morning Edition had a segment on writer Elizabeth McCracken and her new book about her first child who died in utero It is the kind of story that will make pro-choice advocates re-think their position and is a perfect example of how we in the pro-life community can change the cul

Blogger extraordinaire Rocco Palmo has a link to an article in the Guardian about the succession at the cathedra in Westminster the primatial see of England The article has a historical reference so wrong it is comical Catholic enthusiasts – whom some might call conservatives though these

A good friend has raised the issue of Just War theory regarding the fighting in Gaza specifically the issue of proportionality This is one of the most difficult and complicated moral issues and I confess that I have been unable to construct anything like a definitive reply to the query but here a