Joe Moglia: Chair, TD Ameritrade
The chairman of TD Ameritrade, the world’s largest online brokerage firm, Joe Moglia holds a BA in economics from Fordham University. Prior to joining TD in 2008, Moglia was a vice president at Merrill Lynch. Before his venture into the financial world, Moglia earned a master’s degree in
Stephen McGowan: CFO, Sun Mircosystems
Stephen McGowan, who holds an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Loyola Chicago University, was the chief financial officer of Sun Microsystems from 2002 until 2006, when he then became the executive vice president for finance of the Santa Clara, CA-based technology company. McGowan has wor
Ted Leonis: Former executive, AOL
Ted Leonis, a longtime executive of AOL, is now the owner of various sports teams, including the Washington Capitols, an NHL franchise. At AOL in the mid-nineties, Lenois, who holds a degree in economics from Georgetown University, boosted membership of the online service from fewer than 800,000 mem
Ronald Logue: Chair and CEO, State Street Corportation
Ronald E. Logue holds a BS and an MBA from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, and he is currently chair and chief executive officer at State Street Corporation in Boston, MA, where he began in 1990 as senior vice president and head of investment servicing for US mutual funds. One of
Catholic Business School Grads: Profiles of notable industry leaders
Gerald F. Cavanagh, S.J. reflects on the myriad instances of ethical shortfalls in the nation’s financial sector in “What’s Good for Business?”, and explores how professors at business schools in the Catholic tradition can inculcate ethics and values in their students. Cavanagh highlights the church’s long history of social teaching, and concludes that, “An…
Brain Death and Organ Donation: Some pro-life groups are questioning the criteria for organ transplants. Pope John Paul II would have disagreed.
Why are some pro-life groups are questioning the criteria for organ transplants?
A Little Unbelief…: …is not always a bad thing
…is not always a bad thing
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Barack Obama and the American proposition
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Fruits of Our Faith My fervent prayer is that more parish priests will have the courage to preach Sunday sermons like the recent reflection by Barbara Reid, O.P., on the Holy Family (The Word, 12/22). Sister Reid used biblical scholarship to contrast the theology of retribution found in the wisdom l
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The Only Road to Freedom
Martin Luther King and the legacy of nonviolent resistance
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Novelty in continuity: Pope Benedict’s interpretation of Vatican II
Pope Benedict XVI is often considered to favor a “hermeneutics of continuity” in his interpretation of Vatican II, and careless commentators have used that term to describe his view. Instead, he calls it the “hermeneutics of reform.”
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A Virtual Church: Give us this day our daily blog….
Give us this day our daily blog….
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A new study of how American Catholics live their faith
A Giver and a Doer
Margaret Trost was a well-to-do American successful in business happily married with a healthy son Then in the late 1990s her husband died suddenly and unexpectedly In her grief she decided on impulse to go to Haiti with a group of faith-based social justice activists ldquo I was invited to
Women on the Move
The largest migration in human history has nothing to do with barbarian tribes the slave trade or Ellis Island It is the movement of 130 million Chinese who starting in the late 1970s have poured out of rural China into the cities No one person could adequately analyze or summarize this tremend
Books in Brief: Genocide Uncovered; Ignatian Insights; Avian Awareness
Genocide Uncovered; Ignatian Insights; Avian Awareness
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Down Under, Over the Top: Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Australia’
Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Australia’
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Listening to Beethoven
Lord, let me be the least violin,
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On Fire With the Good News
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) Feb. 8, 2009
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The Gift of Goodwill: ‘I saw a vision of possibilities that lie beyond our narrow view here.’
‘I saw a vision of possibilities that lie beyond our narrow view here.’
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Current Comment
Playing Politics with Religion? Richard John Neuhaus 1936-2009
Faith
Novelty in continuity: Pope Benedict’s interpretation of Vatican II
Pope Benedict XVI is often considered to favor a “hermeneutics of continuity” in his interpretation of Vatican II, and careless commentators have used that term to describe his view. Instead, he calls it the “hermeneutics of reform.”
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Obama Era Begins With Prayers WASHINGTON–The inauguration of President Barack Obama began and closed in the traditional way: with prayers. The Right Rev. V. Gene Robinson, Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire, delivered the invocation at the pre-inaugural celebration on Jan. 19, reminding thousands ga
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