The 55th annual meeting of the College Theology Society at the University of Notre Dame this past weekend continued the necessary work begun last month by the Notre Dame community and their commencement honorees in claiming and expanding the common ground for a unified Catholic witness to a more ju

Everything about the murder of Dr George Tiller in Wichita yesterday is tragic First Dr Tiller had a family and friends who have lost their husband father brother and neighbor Because the murder happened in his church Tiller rsquo s fellow church-goers will doubtlessly be traumatized in a un

There are two powerful sobering elements to the slaying of the doctor who performed late-term abortions in Kansas The first is that he was gunned down in his church shortly after the service had begun in front of his wife The second is that it happened on Pentecost Pro-lifers have rushed to co

How nice this side of the Atlantic to awake to Fr Jim on the BBC speaking of the appointments nominations of Sotomayor and Diaz Catch it here sliding almost to the end of the program at 22 55

While way too many people in the Catholic blogosphere were way too concerned with whether Father Alberto nbsp Cutie should have left nbsp Holy Mother Church nbsp so quickly or whether Judge Sonia Sotomayor was sufficiently Catholic Massgoer or just occasional Massgoer or just how much of a lib

In his book The Future of Liberalism Alan Wolfe posits that in addition to philosophic and procedural liberalism there is such a thing as a liberal temperament an openness to debate an inquisitiveness and curiosity about the world a horror of bigotry and an optimistic appraisal of human possibil