In All Things

Happy Election Day My American flag is unfurled on the porch and I will be heading over to the Riverdale Elementary School once the morning rush dies down to cast my vote Of course we know now that there is no more election day Almost a third of the ballots have already been cast by early voti

I suspect many of us will be compulsively checking the polls today nbsp If you re looking for a little variety laughter or inspiration I ve put up heaps of great political videos from the last 2 years here including many of Obama s great speeches nbsp nbsp Enjoy nbsp

It seems unfair that we Europeans can t vote in tomorrow s US election — after all we ve followed every twist and turn of the campaign and it s not as if we ll be unaffected by the result Anxious for a substitute I ve written nbsp an article for the British Jesuit online journal Th

As part of the Year of St Paul America has produced a short comedy sketch about two teenagers in ancient Corinth who do a cable access TV show in which they interview Sts Paul and Peter about who is more Christian nbsp It s our first effort at a sketch-type piece and it stars our very own Re

There is no shortage of stupid campaign decisions outrageously sleazy tactics candidate meltdowns and pitifully evasive debate replies Picking the best ndash or is it worst ndash such example is difficult because as they say in the military the environment is target rich But here goes T

Marx s Capital is back on the bookshelves in Germany — but the Marx in question is a Catholic bishop And while his book is a response to the crisis of capitalism the revolution he is calling for has more to do with Rerum Novarum 1891 than Das Kapital 1867 nbsp You ve got to hand it to th

One of the best aces in the hole for the Republican party has been their Get-Out-The-Vote GOTV operation In 2004 I was working on a congressional race and the final weekend an independent poll had the race tied but we lost by 8 points because the GOP deployed their famed 72-hour plan Karl Rove

In 2004 a grassroots organization in Ohio called ldquo Catholics for Kerry rdquo asked the campaign to send a surrogate to one of their events They were told ldquo We don rsquo t do white churches rdquo Turns out if you ldquo don rsquo t do white churches rdquo you also don rsquo t get to

Cambridge MA In last week rsquo s entry to this column I explained how I attempted to write a piece for the Sunday New York Times rsquo Modern Love section on loving God I explained that I thought that we should be able to speak of loving God in a modern accessible way My piece was not accep

Here s a fun video courtesy of Bustedhalo com on the saints and Halloween nbsp Special credit goes to exec producer Mike Hayes Bill McGarvey and Jarrad Venegas for showing how nbsp Catholic history and tradition can be made–dare I say–lighthearted with some cool video techniques nbsp And