May 4, 2009

This poem is modeled on one from the Yuan Dynasty, 1279-1368, in The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry.

Fifth Sunday of Easter (B), May 10, 2009

'We cannot trust our own estimation of what is solid and what is not.'

Reviving Amtrak; New York's New Archbishop

The Benedictine priest Stanley L. Jaki (left), a Hungarian-born author, physicist, philosopher and theologian, died on April 7 in Madrid.

Notre Dames invitation to President Obama is the latest in a series of controversies concerning the identity of Catholic colleges.

The Vatican called Irans president's recent remarks about Israel at a U.N. conference on racism as extremist and unacceptable