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US Politics
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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.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Repeal the Second Amendment
Though we cannot create an absolutely safe world, we can create a safer world.
Posted inFaith
‘Splendidly himself’: The funeral homily for Robert F. Drinan
John Langan, S.J., preached the homily at the funeral of Robert Drinan, S.J., on Feb. 1, 2007. The full text of his homily is below.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
The Political Is Personal
Always try to do too much must be taken as one of Salman Rushdie’s mantras and he certainly lives up to it here This sprawling story flashes back and forth from pre-World War II Strasbourg to present-day Los Angeles touchesat least fleetinglyon every major world crisis from the Holocaust to
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He Held These Truths
John Courtney Murray is the most significant Catholic theologian the church in the United States has ever produced.