President Obama is headed to South Bend to deliver the Commencement Address later this spring and already the howls have begun A website that is the brainchild of the Cardinal Newman Society has been launched www notredamescandal com Of course the fringe on the right hates Notre Dame as much as

In his homily at yesterday rsquo s stadium mass in Yaound egrave Cameroon Pope Benedict XVI poignantly achieved something I have often struggled to do in undergraduate courses I teach on Catholic social thought or religion and politics he also accomplished something the American media seems to s

Playa del Rey trying to make it back to the glory days This story in today s Los Angeles Times is an interesting look at the neighborhood in Los Angeles which was developed in large part by Fritz B Burns about whom prepare for unfortunate self-promotion I wrote a book before I entered the Soc

This is not Washington rsquo s finest hour The blame shifting and finger pointing about the AIG bonuses are not especially heroic Worst of all the intellectual quality of the debate is pathetic especially among conservatives Charles Krauthammer indicates this morning what he thinks of the entir

The Obama Administration appears a bit schizophrenic these days In California the President sounded like the pitch perfect voice of populist anger at the AIG bonuses and using ndash finally ndash a key word in diagnosing our economic ills culture But Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner