How parishes can welcome children with disabilities

The Lives of Jack LondonJames L. HaleyBasic Books. $29.95For those who know Jack London only from their high school days, that is, as a writer of supposedly “young-adult” tales like the novel The Call of the Wild or the supreme short story “To Build a Fire,” this riveting bio

An exploration of the meaning of conscience and how it relates to law and government.

At Fordham University on Saturday our venerable commencement speaker and a recipient of an honorary doctorate was the Irish president Mary McAleese I was a faculty marshal carrying the mace for the Graduate School of Religion which meant among other things that I got to sit up on the s

You may not have heard of the Cathedral of Frombork on Poland s Baltic coast But the remains that were re-buried there yesterday after a ceremony led by Poland s leading churchmen were of one of the best-known scientists in history long associated with one of the most significant shifts in the way

Cambridge MA As you know from many lsquo fusion rsquo blogs I do not neatly separate out my weekend ministry as a priest and my work as a Catholic theologian who tries to learn deeply from Hinduism Another crossover moment is our current feast Pentecost As we hear in the first reading the

WHEN are we Catholics going to stop harping on slamming despising gay people During a recent Mass in the Diocese of Fresno I was asked to sign up for the Catholic Legislative Network I was in complete agreement with the pitch defense of the sanctity and dignity of life from conception to natural

Life would be so much less interesting if Professor Robert George was not around He has replied to my post yesterday with a post of his own over at Mirror of Justice Among other things he accuses me of an ad hominem attack when I wrote that the tone of his first post was condescending and that con

Just posted to our Web site a series of video interviews with soldiers and conscientious objecters exploring the dilemma of killing in war These videos are taken from the new Emmy-nominated documentary Soldiers of Conscience Many thanks to Ian Slattery for providing these clips Two examples

Since 1972 it has been accurate to say that older voters vote and younger voters don rsquo t Many youths don rsquo t even bother to register thereby wasting one of the greatest privileges of democracy But that description of politically apathetic youth is subject to change which it did most rec

nbsp Normally I don t blog about articles in the Culture section in the print edition but I want to draw your attention to an online slide show of the work of Jonathan Alpeyrie a prominent photographer who in December of 2009 visited the remote monastery of Kintsvisi in Georgia nbsp We fit a

Here on one of my favorite shows Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett carried on NPR are two of my favorite Jesuits and two friends George Coyne S J and Guy Consolmagno S J both astronomers working at the Vatican Observatory in Rome and in Tucson nbsp Just one is fun enough two is

The fifth in a series on Huffpost nbsp If only I could experience God then perhaps I could believe That s a refrain of quite a few seekers and agnostics But they may already have experienced God the desire for God is very often a sign of God s call to us In the echo of our longing for the

Today in the category of ldquo Things I Wish My Fellow Midwesterners Wouldn rsquo t Say Because it Gives My Friends Too Much Ammunition rdquo Democratic Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson has reported that he has never used an ATM machine nbsp That rsquo s right nbsp In an article posted in the Oma

Cathy Kaveny professor of law and theology at Notre Dame nbsp has weighed in on Dotcommonweal on the controversy surrounding the announcement of the excommunication of nbsp Margaret McBride a Sister of Mercy pictured at right by Bishop Thomas Olmstead of Phoenix for her approval of an abortio

Professor Rick Garnett is a professor of law and I am not so I do not disagree with him lightly on matters of the law He is also very smart so I do not disagree lightly with him on anything At his blog Mirror of Justice he takes issue with my immediate reaction to the recent Supreme Court de

It didn rsquo t take long once President Barack Obama named Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his nominee for the Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens for pundits to speculate about her sexual orientation What rsquo s up here What signs or clues do bloggers invoke That she

I ll bet you could use one nbsp Here s one in the WSJ today about the Cristo Rey success story something of which we Jesuits are inordinately proud or at least as proud as we re allowed to be On June 10 Cristo Rey High School in East Harlem will graduate all of its 50 seniors All come from f