In All Things

As a pro life grandmother I am grateful for the moral teaching of the new Vatican Instruction Dignitas Personae I d also like to voice to a few added points on family concerns First off all of us who recognize the conceptus as a new member of the human family will be happy to find the embry

It is not usual to commemorate especially 27th anniversaries Perhaps fittingly since he died at age 27 the 27th anniversary of Bobby Sands lingering death by hunger strike at Long Kesh prison in Northern Ireland in 1981 gets powerfully evoked and the complex issues around it penetratingly r

Every undergraduate in political science has the same epiphany when they first see the set of bound volumes known as the federal tax code Why not get rid of all those special interest tax breaks and deductions and lower the tax rate for everybody The idea like the Roman Rite has a noble simplici

For those culture vultures out there America has just posted two Web-only items of note The first is a review of the film Doubt by Michael V Tueth S J a professor of communications at Fordham University and a frequent contributor to our pages Doubt of course is based on the Tony-award win

From the New York Province of the Society of Jesus Archbishop Sambi the papal nuncio to the U S has sent word to the New York Province that Edward Cardinal Egan has been designated by the Holy Father to preside at Thursday s funeral Mass for Avery Cardinal Dulles SJ nbsp Archbishop Sambi wi

John F Kennedy was not a physicist so when he said that America would put a man on the moon within a decade he was not making a scientific prediction JFK had confidence in American technology and the competitive spirit of man to get us there Had he lived and had no American walked on the moon b

In between all the sad news about the death of Cardinal Dulles you may have missed some wonderful news about one of his Jesuit brothers nbsp John nbsp Foley SJ the founder of the Cristo Rey network of schools providing education nbsp funded in part by nbsp work-study jobs for poor youths ac

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

Assisted suicide is back in the news in Britain because of two poignant stories with a lethal cocktail of accompanying dilemmas is it right to take your own life to end great suffering Should it be illegal for people to help you do so And is it right to show an assisted suicide on television Th

Funeral Plans have been announced by the New York Province of the Society of Jesus for Avery Cardinal Dulles SJ who died this morning at the Jesuit infirmary at Fordham University There will be a Mass of the Holy Name of Jesus particularly for Jesuits in New York and religious and cl