The U S Supreme Court is now considering the issue of same-sex marriage Like many people I have been following whatever news and commentary I can find One thing has struck me by its total absence While there is much discussion about the civil and human rights of adults there has been no disc

I have been on pilgrimage this spring and traveled with boon companions I rsquo ve kept late nights with Dorothy Day toted Thomas Merton on the train chuckled with Flannery O rsquo Connor over her tales of kindred freaks and got lost with Walker Percy in the cosmos They rsquo ve come with me ac

As one brother recovers in a prison hospital from wounds he received briefly eluding capture the remains of the other Tsarnaev brother linger in limbo His now quasi- and unhappily famous uncle Ruslan Tsami is trying to arrange his burial with the assistance of Peter Stefan a funeral home director

Barack Obama has changed About six years ago I stood two feet away from him in the St Peter rsquo s College Jersey City Gym which he had rented for a campaign rally and watched him deal one by one with the crowd that squeezed around him and told myself that maybe this was the one we had been wa

In the May 4 1963 issue of America the editors surveyed the impact of John XXIII 39 s encyclical on war and peace Initial reactions to Pope John 39 s encyclical Pacem in Terris quickly revealed areas in which its practical impact can be expected to make itself felt When the London Sunday Times ha

In the midst of Ernest Hemingway rsquo s novel The Sun Also Rises a successful novelist Bill Gorton demands that his friend Jake Barnes mdash the novel rsquo s narrator mdash give him ldquo irony and pity rdquo one morning in a friendly repartee Jake Barnes has been trying to write fiction