Is there a ahem dark side to all this vampire-mania in pop culture today nbsp Jake Martin SJ our prolific TV reviewer thinks so nbsp In this newest Culture online piece he turns his attention to HBO s hit show True Blood and points out what many commentators seem to have missed ldquo T

To say that former Vice-President Dick Torture is Fine By Me Cheney rsquo s remarks about President Barack Obama rsquo s handling of the war in Afghanistan were pathetic would be to stretch the bounds of human sympathy Mr Cheney has a pension which is as much sympathy as he deserves perhaps mor

It is funny to see conservatives rushing to support Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito who told an Italian-American lawyers rsquo gathering that he is tired of hearing people question the fact that six of the nine current justices on the Supreme Court are Roman Catholic as if there was something wr

In this time of the apostolic visitation which is intended to investigate the quality of life of women religious in the post-Vatican II era I d like to share with you the story of nbsp a woman religious who died just this morning in Dubuque Iowa--one of the best people I ve ever known nbsp S

I suppose it was more than ten years ago that the waiters at the caf eacute I was managing started telling me about ldquo Raves rdquo These were all-night drug-infested parties where the music was loud and to my Bach-attuned ears obnoxious the incidences of copulation or near-copulation many

It sounds like someone is torturing an animal while Christmas music plays in the background Thus did one of my brothers sum up Bob Dylan s new holiday album Christmas in the Heart And he s got a point Bob sounds more like the guy who stumbles in the back door during midnight mass