Subscribers can read nbsp our editorial in America online here but here s a few snippets in advance The clouds roll with thunder the House of the Lord shall be built throughout the earth and these frogs sit in their marsh and croak mdash lsquo We are the only Christians rsquo rdquo So wrote

The results of a Pew survey on the Notre Dame controversy are out and make for nbsp illuminating reading nbsp But the real news which takes us beyond the ND situation nbsp is deeper down in the report nbsp The opening graf says it all Most Catholics who have heard about the issue support th

Politics makes for some strange bedfellows But nothing in recent memory is stranger than the emerging alliance between a group of activist evangelicals and former Cold War statesmen in support of an effort to eliminate nuclear weapons Entirely Earlier this week the group Two Futures introduced i

President Obama has completed his first 100 days The calendar has always seemed an odd way to connote significance but time is a thing we humans have long enjoyed measuring so I suppose it is as good a marker as any for assessing the new Chief Magistrate If you read only the statements by some Ame

I rsquo ve found the conversation on Mary Ann Glendon very interesting and wanted to follow up on some of the points made nbsp nbsp Hopefully my comments will clearly respect the points of view of those who shared them that rsquo s certainly my intent nbsp I completely appreciate Professor G

Not since Paul fell from his horse on the way to Damascus has a conversion caused so much comment and consternation as Sen Arlen Specter rsquo s decision to bolt the Republican Party and run for re-election next year as a Democrat The consequences are immediate and not all of them are welcome The

It was announced yesterday nbsp that Mary Ann Glendon Harvard Law professor and former U S ambassador to the Holy See has now declined to receive the Laetare Medal from Notre Dame at graduation in May out of concerns arising from the school s decision to invite President Barack Obama to speak

Why not use this blog entry Not that you would use it perhaps that s presumptuous of me even to assume it but no one wants to hear about word studies from the pulpit On the other hand what will people say when they hear Acts 4 8-12 proclaimed this Sunday According to the NAB Peter asks if he

The guy I campaigned for didn rsquo t make it but we rsquo ve got a great President hellip and we rsquo ve got a lot of areas where we can work together With these words former Ambassador to the Holy See Thomas Melady during George H W Bush rsquo s presidency kicked off a panel discussion Cat

Just wanted to remind our readers always to be on the lookout at our Books and Culture section for plenty of online only content that we will be posting on a regular basis nbsp We re always limited in terms of page space in the magazine and sometimes it s hard to turn around time-sensitive a