The President rsquo s speeches in Cairo and Normandy were both remarkable the way his speeches are almost always remarkable The delivery is deft the oratory seems matched to the moment and the orator himself is at once so provocatively different from his predecessors starting with the color of his

This past weekend rsquo s 64th annual convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America in Halifax Nova Scotia took a turn toward the introspective The theme of this year rsquo s convention ldquo Impasse hellip and Beyond rdquo invited this somewhat unusual and unexpected drift The c

In these days there is a masterclass in politics being given by the Obama administration in the US and the Brown Government in the UK Two teachers are demonstrating vividly and compellingly both what politics should be for and what happens when it fails One teaches a lesson in greatness the oth

Unlike many introductions to Thomas Merton this new short clip appearing today on PBS s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly website includes nbsp an introduction to nbsp the present-day Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Bardstown Kentucky nbsp It also includes interviews with Paul Pearson dire

I wonder what will be said this morning at the water fountain down the hall from George Weigel rsquo s office at the Ethics amp Public Policy Center when they read Sandro Magister rsquo s column today I will take bets that paramedics will be needed at the American Enterprise Institute where Mich

I was at Lambeth Palace a few hours ago hearing the Archbishop of Canterbury introduce a lecture by dramatically describing the chaos and failure of the current political moment nbsp Then I returned home and switched on the News to catch a breaking story that a third minister has resigned fro