Much of the discussion about what to do in Afghanistan occurs in front of the backdrop of the Surge in Iraq and its success Indeed over the weekend Sen John McCain repeated the claim that a new Surge is needed in Afghanistan that half-measures will spell defeat and that t here is no way to wi

The London Observer yesterday ran an article on the Catholicism of the documentary-maker Michael Moore whose new film apparently attacks capitalism from a Christian standpoint Moore is a practising Catholic and has put religion at the core of Capitalism A Love Story Alongside the political argum

It is difficult not to feel ambivalent about the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama It turns out that the ldquo we rdquo in ldquo Yes We Can rdquo was even broader than the 53 percent of Americans who voted for him last November But while I count myself as a fan and

Cambridge MA As promised in my last entry for the next several weeks I will share this space with Sri Murali Manohar who has kindly agreed to share with me a conversation on matters of interest to Hindus and Christians and hopefully to a wider range of readers interested in religion today What

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case Salazar v Bouno yesterday The case revolves around a cross erected as a war memorial in the Mojave Desert that sits on federal land although the cross was first put up by the Veterans of Foreign Wars a non-governmental organization This is the f

The church will soon have a new saint nbsp This nbsp Sunday nbsp Oct 11 Pope Benedict XVI will canonize nbsp St Damien of Molokai or St Damien de Veuster nbsp He may fairly be called--with not too much of a stretch--an American saint an immigrant who came to work nbsp on what came to b