Why religious liberty schould be a U.S. foreign policy priority

Life would be so much less interesting if Professor Robert George was not around He has replied to my post yesterday with a post of his own over at Mirror of Justice Among other things he accuses me of an ad hominem attack when I wrote that the tone of his first post was condescending and that con

Archbishop Oscar Romero remains a guiding presence in his native country.

One hundred years hence it is possible that the history books will note the on-going ups-and-downs of the clergy sex abuse crisis Perhaps the treaty the President nbsp signed this morning nbsp to reduce the number of nuclear weapons will be the first of many which will in one hundred years reac

My youngest of four daughters has moved out of the house She is now sharing an apartment with one of her sorority sisters only 50 miles from home She is halfway through her freshman year of college She is lovely witty compassionate intelligent thoughtful and completely ready to be out of th

Jewish dietary regulations remind us of our obligations to our animal companions.

A Life A.M.D.G. The commentary on the life of John W. Donohue, S.J. (Of Many Things, 3/8) stirred in me fond memories of my freshman year at Canisius High School in 1944-45. We were in the first class to use the “new” school on Delaware Avenue in Buffalo. Our class was special in several

Ben Smith rsquo s blog over at Politico com is a must-read on any day but today it is a stop-what-you-are-doing go-read-it-right-now read He looks at the growing suspicion among conservative evangelical voters of the libertarian impulses of the tea party movement The immediate worry is that the

The Vatican has admitted shelving a theological report into the morality of the use of condoms to prevent Aids reports The Tablet s Rome correspondent Robert Mickens The study was undertaken in 2006 by the Pontifical Council for Health Care and submitted to the Congregation for the Doctrine of t