In All Things

In 1952 my mother was a student teacher at the Horace Porter Elementary School in Columbia Connecticut She was teaching the children about the Soviet Union One of her students unhelpfully went home and told her parents my mother was teaching communism Within 48 hours she was hauled in front of

Cambridge MA The New York Times for Monday October 13 caught my eye three times over with items of sadness that pertain to interreligious relations interreligious thinking On the front page one article talked about the campaign dedicated to spreading the rumor that Barack Obama is a Muslim A

In a globalized world money flows like blood coursing through interconnected veins and capillaries nbsp into the furthest corners connecting up different parts in the most astonishing ways Like blood money can go toxic and when it does all those different parts are affected And they put up ba

Pope Benedict XVI has been speaking about his predecessor Pope Pius XII in very favorable terms lately specifically at the world Synod of Bishops when he explicitly mentioned Pius s response to the Holocaust nbsp All this has raised expectations that nbsp his beatification may be imminent nb

Last night I was part of a panel sponsored by the Boisi Center here at Boston College to discuss the Catholic vote in the 2008 election Our host was Alan Wolfe who is America rsquo s leading non-Catholic expert on Catholicism My co-panelist was Amy Sullivan read her latest column in Time magazin

Readers of America s special Eleciton Blog will be familiar by now with Rick Garnett who teaches law at Notre Dame Rick s main blogging home is at Mirror of Justice and he has recently posted some commentary on the economic meltdown that are well worth reading if you want to get a thoughtful co

America s special Election Blog is running a Blog Contest Due to a scheduling complication the original deadline has been pushed back from tomorrow until next Wednesday october 15 The contest is open to both high school and college students For more details click here

The economic crisis has changed many calculations Certainly if Barack Obama wins his most important choice may be his new Secretary of the Treasury a job that became vastly more influential with the passage of the Bailout last week But if history is any guide another Cabinet post may prove just

Yesterday I walked under high bright blue sky leaves slipping away from green into pre-death red flares in October chill across the Fordham campus on my way to the New York Botanical Garden The path from my office to the gate leads by Fordham Preparatory School and my first time ever walking b

Last night rsquo s town hall debate was not exactly newsworthy John McCain announced a proposal to buy up all bad mortgages in the country as a further step towards solving the economic crisis an idea that was quickly condemned by his own base Barack Obama suggested that despite the cost of his