In All Things

Pollsters and pundits have been beating themselves up since they failed to predict Hillary Clinton s surprise victory in the New Hampshire primary But the pollsters were not that far off Polls estimated that Barack Obama would receive between 36 and 42 percent of the vote and he captured 36 J

The Wire by far my favorite show on television is now in its fifth and final season on HBO Even if you haven t been watching this sprawling Baltimore-based drama you can catch up with this handy synopsis of seasons 1-4 As I noted in my recent OMT each season of The Wire focuses on a di

Foolish as it would be to look for deep theological insights from The View Joy Behar s recent statements on Catholic saints a not existing any longer and b needing medication was about as close as you could come to a nice Youtubable public display of anti-Catholicism for any who doubt

The exit polls from New Hampshire may keep Mike Huckabee awake tonight We all know that Huckabee won in Iowa because of the big turn-out of born-again and evangelical voters And we all knew that Huckabee would carry the evangelical vote in New Hampshire but still lose the primary because there jus

If you want to see how the evolution of doctrine works in practice look up Avery Cardinal Dulles learned article Who Can Be Saved in February s First Things In a succinct and brisk narrative Dulles describes how Christians developed their theological reflections on salvation from scriptura

America is now accepting submissions for the Foley Poetry Contest Details here Last year we received over 1 000 entries from all over the world The youngest writer was 8 the oldest 89 according to poetry editor James Torrens S J The winner was John Slater a Trappist monk from the Abbey of

The General Congregation has begun with a homily by Cardinal Francis Rode C M prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life It s included here on Creighton s wonderful GC 35 website GC 35 Info The photo is by Don Doll S J a photo

For terminal politicos like me last night was a much coveted but rarely experienced moment of real political drama No one knew what was going to happen in yesterday s Iowa caucuses This just doesn t happen in elections any more and it was fun to watch There is more than enough analysis of th

Get ready for the start of the Jesuits 35th General Congregation whose first order or nearly first order of business will be to elect a new superior general of the worldwide Society of Jesus The new General will succeed Peter-Hans Kolvenbach SJ the Dutch Jesuit who has served in the posi

My office neighbor Pat Kossman America s literary editor is super neat A place for everything and everything in its place is my impression of her take on the issue That is not mine at all First-time visitors to my own office tend to look about in dismay at papers and books on every flat