This week in the nbsp Culture section Leo O Donovan SJ our go-to guy for all things nbsp in the world of fine arts nbsp has a marvelous review in our current issue on the spiritual eye of the Russian painter Vasily Kandinsky here nbsp Kandinsky is the focus of a new exhibit at the Guggenheim M

Uwem Akpan the Nigerian Jesuit and author of the award-winning Say You re One of Them will be appearing on Oprah Winfrey s show on a worldwide webcast on Nov 9 nbsp the first time Ms Winfrey is doing this for one of her authors nbsp Here s how her website describes it On Monday Novembe

Yesterday Interior Secretary Ken Salazar signed the papers allowing construction to proceed on a monument to the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr on the National Mall here in Washington This is an important thing and I am not sure I would have known how important until a couple of years ago I try

A tip from our friend Robert Mickens the Rome correspondent for nbsp the London Tablet nbsp He wrote this morning Andrea Tornielli writes in Il Giornale today that publication of the new Apostolic Constitution establishing the entrance of Anglicans into the Catholic Church is being held up by a

To stay or not to stay that is the question While President Obama from his encampment at Elsinore on the Potomac continued to agonize over his rotten options in the state of Afghanistan in a period of just two days U S forces there suffered a series of terrible losses in what has been the deadli

The Washington Post is reporting on its front page this morning that President Obama has called for a province-by-province analysis of Afghanistan assessing which areas are in need of additional help from the U S and which have local governments that are in sufficient control on their own Such