In All Things

America s special election blog is pleased to welcome Rick Garnett as a conbtributor Rick is a law professor at Nore Dame and a frequent contributor at MirrorofJustice com a blog dedicated to Catholic legal theory You can read his first contribution by clicking here nbsp Michael Sean Winters

The Pope in Paris yesterday gave a speech which will be remembered as one of his most significant not just because of its content ndash nbsp which has recast the current European thinking about freedom and faith ndash but because of its historic context It was made just a few hours after a tw

In addition to having a winning message and a biography that allows viewers to envision you are president and a strategy for winning 270 electoral college votes and the ability to bring Catholic swing voters into your column you need to get your voters to the polls You need a ground game dedica

ldquo As Catholics go so goes America rdquo religion scholar and Boston College professor Alan Wolfe recently wrote happily in the blurb for my book The quintessential swing voters for the past 35 years have been white ethnic Catholics living in suburbs in the Northeast and Midwest They we

In politics as in sports momentum that invisible unquantifiable yet powerful force produced from a succession of wins can make or break a campaign That s why George H W Bush called it the Big Mo But how does a candidate gain momentum Well he or she has to figure out what the voter

America s election blog is pleased to welcome Tom Rosshirt who will do occasional postings for our readers Tom was a speechwriter for President Bill Clinton and is a partner at West Wing Writers a communications and strategy firm located in Washington D C Tom and his family worship at Holy Tri

Fr Jim Martin follows up on his first video blog on prayer with an introduction to Ignatian contemplation Check back in over the coming weeks for reflections on lectio divina and other forms of prayer Tim Reidy

Fr Roy Bourgeois the prominent Maryknoll priest and tireless human-rights advocate best known for his opposition to the School of the Americas the U S military s school that had trained some foreign military responsible for assassinations in Latin America has found himself in some potential

Barack Obama is quoted in this morning s Washington Post describing the how the campaign and specifically the GOP s message has changed in the past two weeks What s changed is that the Republican Party which had been trying to make an argument about experience basically got off that and