Richard Nixon was a complicated man who happened to be a conflicted man.
US Politics
Posted inOf Many Things, Politics & Society
Of Many Things
No one should visit a presidential library expecting to see a balanced assessment.
Posted inFaith, In All Things
Cokie Roberts, Catholic Woman in the Public Square
Cokie Roberts, political commentator for ABC News, has stood for more than four decades as a prominent Catholic woman in the public.
Posted inPolitics & Society
Paul Ryan: We can do better in the fight against poverty
Paul Ryan: There is a lot of untapped potential in this country; I have seen it firsthand.
Posted inFaith, In All Things
Saving Gang Members from the Street? Q&A with Father Greg Boyle, SJ
Father Greg Boyle S J is an American Jesuit priest who works with Los Angeles street gangs as the founding director of Homeboy Industries in California nbsp Before founding Homeboy Industries as a non-profit ministry to his neighborhood rsquo s predominantly Hispanic gang members in 2001 Father
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Watergate, S.J.: Three Jesuits and the downfall of a president
By the spring of 1973, the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., had become a sensation but not yet an obsession.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Novak’s Travels
Michael Novak’s autobiography is another remarkable American success story.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
A President for Peace: The deadly consequences of J.F.K.’s attempts at reconciliation
The day President John F. Kennedy was murdered, a Divine Word seminarian walked up the hill to our family’s apartment in Rome to tell my wife Sally and me the terrible news. Seeking wisdom, I wrote Dorothy Day.
Posted inArts & Culture, In All Things
An interview with Fay Vincent: The transcript
We have transcribed our interview with Former MLB Commissioner Fay Vincent on the morality of baseball. You can listen to the interview here or read it below.
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
From 1964: A New Breed: There aren’t very many of them, but they’re important just the same.
A classic article on the next generation of Catholics—including priests and men and women religious—from the Rev. Andrew M. Greeley.