If our democracy is to survive and prosper, then our politics must become less important.
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How can we start a better conversation about abortion?
Can you be pro-life and a feminist? What about a pro-life socialist? Can a small-l libertarian support restrictions on abortion?
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Did you know the Jesuits were founded in a dorm room? Here’s what that says about the election.
It might interest you to know that the Society of Jesus really began in a college dorm room in September 1529.
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Waiting to hear about the new Jesuit superior general, and remembering my time as a delegate
The congregation has spoken, and we are happy with their choice of Father Arturo Sosa as our new superior general.
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Catholic schools might be the last place to cultivate Catholic culture
The choice of a Catholic education for our children today is the right choice at the right time, not merely for its material benefits, but for the progress of souls.
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Bridging the Digital Divide as a Gen Xer
I belong to the last generation of college students who wrote their term papers on a typewriter—for one year. By the time I entered my sophomore year, I was writing on a word processor; by the time I graduated, I was staring into the blue-grey screen of a Macintosh.
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The new National Museum of African American History opens with a bell rung in unity.
In spite of our common progress, the country is still beset by the consequences of our original sin: lingering racial prejudice and outright bias, and deep distrust between Americans of different races and between large swaths of our citizenry and those charged with protecting and serving them.
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One bomb had exploded in Manhattan; perhaps there was a second. Some injuries, no fatalities. Within 10 minutes or so, most of the customers were back where they started: enjoying the evening, almost as if nothing had happened.
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Was Pope Benedict really a ‘liberal’ turned ‘conservative’?
Deconstructionists, those intellectuals who make it their job to ask critical questions about our long-cherished collective stories, like to ask, among other things, who or what cause is best served by a given narrative. They might ask, for example, whose interests are served by a story that tells o
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Matt Malone, S.J.: This election actually could be the most important in a generation
The major-party presidential nominees have dramatically different visions for this country.