Catholic wisdom on end-of-life care

In many respects, the U.S. Army and the Catholic Church could not be more dissimilar institutions. Both have radically different missions, divergent access to resources, and, seemingly, heterogeneous cultures.

Taking stock of the new evangelical internationalism

Paul Locatelli SJ a nbsp terrific Jesuit a fine priest a superb administrator longtime president of Santa Clara University and a longtime friend to many editors here at America died today at age 71 after a short battle with pancreatic cancer nbsp Until recently he had been working in a high

Pundits have mused that Al Gore needs to produce an imperative sequel to his documentary An Inconvenient Truth In this second version he would explain why mdash given the great even overwhelming convergence among scientists on the primarily human caused global warming--so few people seem to r

On this day 18 years ago Dan Quayle famously misspelled potato leading the 12-year-old child whom he corrected to later comment to David Letterman I know he s not an idiot but he needs to study more Do you have to go to college to be vice president Garrison Keillor has the story at the bot

From NCR When Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix declared that Mercy Sr Margaret McBride had committed a violation of church law deserving of excommunication he did so with a swiftness and certainty that left no possibility for doubt or nuance Since that declaration was released in May however th