In All Things

Catholic voters certainly came to look at the Democratic Party differently in the wake of Roe but the breaking apart of the New Deal Coalition had begun earlier The turmoil of the late 1960s the counter-culture the anti-Vietnam War protests the emergence of radical feminism Stonewall etc

John McCain is sitting pretty right now While the Hillary and Barack slug it out McCain can begin to frame the November election and to position himself as the candidate best able to attract crucial swing voters And no voters have more swing in them than ethnic Catholics concentrated as they are

My students and I at Fordham have been reading Shushaku Endo s Silence this week as part of a class on Catholic novels Translated by William Johnston S J whose long and distinguished career includes a recent essay published in America the novel treats the struggles of Christian missionari

A few years ago a Catholic friend who lives in a large northeastern city told me of visiting a church that had been closed for some time It was a grand and great old church where we had both been parishioners The diocese had started to auction off various pieces of art in the church to the highe

In preparation for Pope Benedict s visit to the United States next month Beliefnet the web s largest mainstream spirituality and religion website has nabbed David Gibson to blog regularly on B16 Gibson a former Vatican radio correspondent experienced religion journalist and author of b

Cambridge MA The March 22nd issue of The Tablet includes a fascinating record from our recent Catholic history the transcript of a 2003 conversation between Cardinal Franz K nig retired archbishop of Vienna and Fr Jacques Dupuis SJ a distinguished theologian who was at the time under sc

The last two weeks of the Democratic nominating contest have been dominated by two controversies neither of which have risen to the level of a scandal but both of which exhibited the potential to tarnish their victims indelibly Rev Jeremiah Wright s anti-American rants http www youtube com w

Last Monday the Democratic National Committee approved Puerto Rico s plan to change from a June 7 caucus to a June 1 primary After North Carolina and Indiana vote on May 6 Puerto Rico s 55 delegates will be the largest prize left News accounts and early analysis claim that Hillary Clinton

Who would you rather have a beer with John Adams or Benjamin Franklin That s one of the pressing questions Matt Malone addresses in the latest installment of his review of HBO s John Adams Part 3 focuses on Adams trip to France to woo the French court to the American cause Matt will be