In All Things

I am not sure why all three remaining candidates for president signed a joint statement from the Save Darfur Coalition Perhaps after such a long primary season which was so often focused on nitpicking issues it was time for a little moral posturing They noted that on this moral issue of tremend

Sen John McCain has long cultivated a political image as a maverick someone who is willing to reach across the aisle someone who will take unpopular positions challenge partisan orthodoxies someone you can count on to talk straight Like all political images there is truth in this characteriza

Yes I know I write a lot about Lourdes That s one of the hazards of being moved by something like a pilgrimage or a retreat experience But here s something new While the Order of Malta was on pilgrimage this year a few of the members of the Order followed our group around for the week a

Mark Stricherz s review of HBO s Recount for America is now online Mark once worked as a literary assistant here at the magazine and is the author of Why the Democrats are Blue Secular Liberalism and the Decline of the People s Party In his review Mark raises the provocative quest

Press coverage of the upcoming Puerto Rico primary continues to disappoint Both the New York Times and the Washington Post repeated the claim that Hillary Clinton was expected to win on the island because she has done better among Hispanics on the mainland Clinton does in fact have a leg up on O

Cambridge MA Really alert readers will notice that I studiously avoid current events mostly because I have no great insights to add to what I hear on NPR or read in the New York Times I instead focus on things I ve read studied seen at Harvard and elsewhere soon enough I will add a piece

John McCain threw evangelical pastor John Hagee overboard yesterday Finally Months ago when anti-Catholic comments by the pastor came to light McCain said he did not support the claims and Hagee did one of those faux-mea culpas in which he did not apologize for what he said but for any offense

Why go to mass Like other Americans many Catholics claim to be spiritual but not religious They cannot believe that missing mass is a mortal sin who does nor do they feel obligated to support their parish But Catholics today do appreciate friendship sex and communication however they

These two stories are particularly interesting when taken together In the first dated May 17 here Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone the Vatican s Secretary of State reaffirms the church s ban on ordaining gay men whether in the diocesan world or in religious orders The Vatican was respondin

John McCain in an effort to paint Barack Obama as wet behind the ears on security issues has taken the Illinois Senator to task for promising to meet with foreign leaders without preconditions McCain has focused much of his blast at the implications for relations with Iran whose leader is admitt