The news of Justice David Souter rsquo s retirement adds another challenging task to President Obama rsquo s already full plate There is any number of qualified candidates so the challenge is merely a political one Everyone seems to think Obama will choose a woman I agree that women often bring a

Subscribers can read nbsp our editorial in America online here but here s a few snippets in advance The clouds roll with thunder the House of the Lord shall be built throughout the earth and these frogs sit in their marsh and croak mdash lsquo We are the only Christians rsquo rdquo So wrote

Ever since I worked in a Jesuit parish in a slum in Nairobi Kenya called Mtakatifu Yosefu Mfanyakazi or St Joseph the Worker I have been drawn nbsp to this aspect of the foster father of Jesus nbsp Of course we know little about him other than the little that the Gospels tell us nbsp Josep

The results of a Pew survey on the Notre Dame controversy are out and make for nbsp illuminating reading nbsp But the real news which takes us beyond the ND situation nbsp is deeper down in the report nbsp The opening graf says it all Most Catholics who have heard about the issue support th

Politics makes for some strange bedfellows But nothing in recent memory is stranger than the emerging alliance between a group of activist evangelicals and former Cold War statesmen in support of an effort to eliminate nuclear weapons Entirely Earlier this week the group Two Futures introduced i

The University of Notre Dame has announced that this year s Laetare Address will be given by Judge John Noonan who received the Laetare Medal in 1984 The announcement is not yet on the website but I will provide a link as soon as it is Update Here is the link