In All Things

One of the most common misperceptions about the presidential election is that on November 4 we will have a national election to select our next President In fact we will have 51 separate elections on November 4 because of the Electoral College As Al Gore discovered in 2000 you can get more than

nbsp Austen Ivereigh s terrific piece below on the pope s upcoming trip to Lourdes reminds us of the need to accept the presence of the supernatural as part of faith nbsp There are many resources on the web about Lourdes for those who are interested in learning more including the official

I m going to take a punt Pope Benedict XVI s four-day visit to France beginning this Friday is set to be one of the defining moments of his pontificate The theme of his papacy has always been to challenge the dictatorship of relativism — his memorable term for the newly-invigorated Europe

Sunday rsquo s Washington Post had a frightening article about just how ill-informed most American voters are It makes for some sad reading to realize how in this information age more people know the goings-on in Paris Hilton rsquo s romantic life than can find Iraq on a map But the article mis

Robert Giroux the great writer and editor nbsp and publisher of such literary nbsp giants as Flannery O Connor Robert Lowell T S Eliot Virginia Woolf Jack Kerouac and many others has died at the age of 94 nbsp The New York Times had this nbsp moving obituary nbsp on September 6 nbsp He

First Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi demonstrated that she wasn rsquo t paying attention during theology classes when she matriculated at Trinity College Now Sen Joe Biden has managed to wade into the treacherous waters of making pronouncements on what the Church does and does not teach abo

We promised that we would have a fresh post every morning by 8 a m This morning we had some technical difficulties but our new election blog is up and can be found here

Sixty days to go We are waiting for the polling numbers to shake out after the post-convention bounces But who is winning on the different components of a campaign on message biography the issues and on the ground Usually the two parties craft different messages for an election depending on

Or so it is claimed by T-shirts printed off this week in the wake of the Republican VP nominee s put-down of Barack Obama s former profession in her speech last Wednesday Is this a new front in America s faith-culture wars It seems odd for a party seeking the God vote to diss one of the grea

I spent my Saturday with twelve men in cages It s hard to imagine that in the United States we put inmates in cages but in the Secured Housing Unit of the prison where I volunteer we do In the SHU inmates who are privileged to attend Catholic services are escorted from their housing to ind