Today Senator Barack Obama announced his national Catholic advisory committee The names are a fascinating mix of well Catholics--and include some regular and recent America contributors like Mary Jo Bane Lisa Cahill Richard Gaillardetz Cathy Kaveny and David O Brien And congratulations t

Robert Ellsberg currently the publisher of Orbis Books has pulled off the journalistic equivalent of a double-play scoring recent cover articles in both Commonweal and The London Tablet The reason After several years of dedicated scholarship Ellsberg has put the finishing touches the first

Our most regular blogger Michael Sean Winters has a provocative article on Slate com on how Benedict s papacy has disappointed neo-cons and theo-cons Here s Winters Three years after Benedict s election as American Catholics prepare for the pope s visit next week those same conser

Some readers may have read A Jesuit Off-Broadway which tells the story of my six months with the LAByrinth Theater Company a New York-based acting troupe who were creating a new play about Jesus and Judas which premiered in April 2004 That play The Last Days of Judas Iscariot was writt

To read my previous posts on the Casa just click on my name above This is an appropriate time--during these five weeks of Easter--to think back on our experience of the liturgies of Holy Week Historically this is the season when new Christians just baptized and confirmed reflect on the myst

All this week we have been looking at the various ways politics has been corrupted by the rise of a professional class of campaign consultants They view candidates as puppets the electorate as a market and politics as an exercise in manipulation They induce a state of mind in candidates that re