At the funeral in Baghdad yesterday for the dozens of Christian hostages killed by Al-Qaeda gunmen on Sunday the Chaldean Patriarch Emmanuel III Delly head of Iraq s largest Catholic church said the victims had been struck by the devil s hand Six young foreign-born Islamic militants burst into

Yesterday was the official pub date for Fr Ray Schroth s new biography of Robert F Drinan S J --the controversial Jesuit priest and congressmen--and NCR has already weighed in with a positive review As the review notes the most intriguing question raised by the book is whether Drinan who serve

Today after months of intense fighting and spending close to four billions dollars on campaigns Americans are headed to the polls If the pundits are right Republicans will take control of the House make some gains in the Senate and come out victorious in more than a few gubernatorial conte

Leo J O Donovan SJ president emeritus of Georgetown University is always on the lookout for art exhibitions that readers might find of interest nbsp Recently he visited a new show at New York s Metropolitan Museum of Art which has been receiving raves for its creative curation The World of

I hope you have been reading Austen Ivereigh s reports from Rome these past few weeks where events have occurred that will define important aspects of church growth in the future Within Ivereigh rsquo s excellent reporting is a story within a story perhaps unnoticed but important nevertheless As

The only Christians who remain in Iraq are those too old or too poor to attempt to escape many of the Iraqi refugees I interviewed last September in Amman Jordan assured me They said after years of threats kidnappings bombings and murders they would never return had no reason to return would n