February 2, 2009

The largest migration in human history has nothing to do with barbarian tribes the slave trade or Ellis Island It is the movement of 130 million Chinese who starting in the late 1970s have poured out of rural China into the cities No one person could adequately analyze or summarize this tremend

Margaret Trost was a well-to-do American successful in business happily married with a healthy son Then in the late 1990s her husband died suddenly and unexpectedly In her grief she decided on impulse to go to Haiti with a group of faith-based social justice activists ldquo I was invited to

Baz Luhrmann's 'Australia'

Lord, let me be the least violin,

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) Feb. 8, 2009

'I saw a vision of possibilities that lie beyond our narrow view here.'

Playing Politics with Religion? Richard John Neuhaus 1936-2009