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Realpolitik I am a Venezuelan missionary priest working in the United States, and I make frequent visits to my home country because of my ministry. I deeply agree with your editorial on Venezuela (“A Future With Mr. Chávez,” 3/16). I would like your readers to focus their attentio

At critical moments in life it is important to take stock. The demand from many Catholic bishops and lay leaders that the University of Notre Dame rescind its invitation to President Obama to deliver the 2009 commencement address is surely a critical moment in the relationship between the Catholic Church in the United States and the wider American society. Before battle lines harden further on this issue, we should take time-out to ask some hard and penetrating questions. These are some of the questions that occur to me.

Patrick Samway
A new biography of Flannery O'Connor, reviewed
In a major address in Krakow, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz assessed the progress of Jewish-Catholic relations in Poland over the last half-century.
In the wake of Cardinal Walter Kasper's call for a clarification of the doctrine on indulgences, John O'Malley, S.J., offers this short history.
Mauricio Funes (left), a journalist and proponent of liberation theology, was elected president of El Salvador on March 15.
Homeland Security plans to deploy federal agents to the southern border region are receiving mixed reviews from Mexican Catholic officials.
The archbishop said Randall Terry told him the videotaped interview would be used to encourage pro-life workers in their cause.
The Vatican does not have clear guidelines for applying the principle of reciprocity, said Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran.
The Notre Dame president called President Obama's upcoming visit "a basis for further positive engagement.