Everyone in my hometown knows him We always see him dancing on the street corners wearing flamboyant attire fighting with light posts pretending to be a tree We all know him but few know what he rsquo s like when not on his medication instead of his affable quirky self we see the darker sid

Jonathan Schell who died in Brooklyn on March 25 at the age of 70 was more than a great journalist he was what every journalist aspires mdash or should aspire mdash to be a moralist a prophet a soul of deep integrity I suppose I should use those adjectives with caution since I regret that we

A recent New York Times story on the birth of the universe produces awe and amazement ldquo It rsquo s not every day that you wake up and find what happened one trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the big bang rdquo quipped a prominent cosmologist Science 3 21 New di

As the nation continues its apparently endless debate on comprehensive immigration reform members of the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops joined together this morning with residents migrants and advocates at the border in Nogales Arizona There they celebrated Mass together to remember the tho

In my most recent column I discuss my friendship with a young rabbi and a 60-something Jewish painter in Brooklyn named Archie Rand When I first met Archie he was showing his enormous work quot The 613 quot in the dilapidated warehouse he owned in Brooklyn Due to space concerns for the column

The spiritual season of Lent sometimes brings out the creativity in people In fulfilling our Lenten obligations of prayer fasting and almsgiving we try to come up with something new something more meaningful something that will change our lives I recently heard in passing of a different kind o