The faithful witness of Alfred Delp, S.J.

Pope attacks the cruelty of Atheism" and Pope Replies to The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins were two of the headlines that greeted Benedict XVIs second encyclical, Saved by Hope (Spe Salvi). An Anglican bishop was more on target when he told me: I welcome this encyclical on Christian hope. Hope is

Faithful Citizens “A Future Without Parish Schools,” by Terry Golway, (12/10) raises a crucially important issue for the future of catechesis in the Catholic Church in the United States. Catholic parish schools have been an extremely important factor in providing for the catechesis of Ca

An informal survey of my black friends tells me they think that the interjection of the race issue into the 2008 primaries by Hillary Clinton and her surrogates was a calculated effort to paint Barack Obama as the black candidate when in fact his campaign is premised on a biography that transce

A reader has taken issue with my characterization of GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul as a libertarian wingnut I have reflected on the phrase and stand by it Indeed while libertarians can be very smart there is something a little crazy about their beliefs a craziness that is rooted in thei

We now enjoy public discussion about a Mass in which the priest faces ad orientem some like to refer to this position as with his back to the people while others like to refer to this position as towards the east itself a reference to the direction from which in olden times God was ex

Sen Barack Obama is not campaigning on a hope and a prayer but if he has a prayer of winning he needs to flesh out his hopeful vision for the country He has presented himself as a transformational leader a claim that coheres nicely with his untraditional biography Still he needs to provide

Pollsters and pundits have been beating themselves up since they failed to predict Hillary Clinton s surprise victory in the New Hampshire primary But the pollsters were not that far off Polls estimated that Barack Obama would receive between 36 and 42 percent of the vote and he captured 36 J

The exit polls from New Hampshire may keep Mike Huckabee awake tonight We all know that Huckabee won in Iowa because of the big turn-out of born-again and evangelical voters And we all knew that Huckabee would carry the evangelical vote in New Hampshire but still lose the primary because there jus

In large part this book about U S -Iranian-Israeli international relations sets out to make a case for the progressive secularization of the post-revolutionary Iranian state In Treacherous Alliance Trita Parsi adjunct professor of international relations at Johns Hopkins University argues cogent