The journalist and former television news producer Richard M Cohen knows firsthand the toll of chronic illness He described his battle with multiple sclerosis and colon cancer in Blindsided Living a Life Above Illness a chronicle of courage and survival In his new book Strong at the Broken Pl

As both an astronomer and a Jesuit Guy Consolmagno is well situated and qualified to comment on places where faith and science interact He does not explain the title of his latest book God 8217 s Mechanics anywhere in the text but clearly implies that scientists and engineers study figure out

More sartorial commentary Keith Pecklers S J has a provocative article in the latest London Tablet on Pope Benedict s return to some of the more formal vesture of the church Father Pecklers is Professor of Liturgy at the Pontifical Gregorian University and Professor of Liturgical History a

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We can learn a few things from the Irish. No, I’m not talking about the laudable contributions of Irish literature, music, peace in Northern Ireland, their economic miracle or even all the fuss about saving civilization. We can learn from practical and successful Irish approaches to greening t

From 2008, predictions about what a postwar Iraqi government might look like.