Joseph Koterski, S.J., on the good, the trendy and the worrisome in modern academia

A letter sent on behalf of the pope asked that Georgia's parole board “commute the sentence to one that would better express both justice and mercy.”

Faith and reason together must remain a cornerstone of our civic discourse.

When he was first elected, I said: 'Strap on your seatbelt.' My friend asked: 'Why?' I said: 'Because he’s a Jesuit.'

From start to finish, the memorial service at Ground Zero was a time of shared prayer, a remarkable interfaith moment of praying together.

By the time pope and president met in the presidential suite at New York rsquo s Waldorf Astoria on October 4 1965 Paul VI and Lyndon Baines Johnson were relatively new in their respective positions Both men assumed their offices two years previously mdash in 1963 mdash on the death of their pred