The neighborhood surrounding the Nativity Mission Center a Jesuit-run middle school on Manhattan s Lower East Side has undergone significant changes over the past few decades Increasing gentrification has resulted in positive changes like fewer worries about prostitutes or neighborhood drug deal

Cambridge MA A news report the other day about the killing of 10 aid workers in Afghanistan reported ldquo The director of International Assistance Mission Dirk Frans denies the Taliban s accusations that the members of his group were missionaries He says they were on a peaceful mission to help

A few months back I received some e-mail from Middle Eastern sources which argued that a military build-up on Israel s northern border meant preparations for a new war between Israel Hezbollah Lebanon and perhaps even Syria At the time the idea after such pointless bloodletting in 2006 and the c

A recent blogpost at CatholicCulture org formerly Catholic World News by Diogenes the anonymous blogger who loves to name names but never reveals his her true identity classy blames all the controversy in the past 50 years about Catholic politicians who do not march lock-step in accordance wit

Jake Martin SJ a Jesuit scholastic and frequent contributor to our pages and our webpages had a horror of what the French call les nbsp cin eacute astes nbsp those nbsp tr egrave s serieux scholars of film who wax poetic about Godard Rohmer Resnais Truffaut et al nbsp But the recently rem

The new issue of Vanity Fair includes a brief and eloquent piece by the inimitable Christopher Hitchens on his cancer diagnosis and treatment it is a must-read for anyone who loves or hates Hitchens musings on any number of subjects nbsp The prognosis sounds grim and Hitchens does not flinch