At the height of the sexual abuse crisis in Boston Cardinal Bernard Law claimed that canon law had prevented him from taking action to protect victims Victims responded Canon law was irrelevant to us Children were being abused Sexual predators were being protected The Boston Globe July 7 200

Two notable books from 90-year old Jesuits

Violence in Kenya & Pakistan, the Olympics comes to Beijing

Pope Addresses Diplomats Addressing diplomats from around the world, Pope Benedict XVI warned that numerous armed conflicts and social disorders have left global stability in a fragile situation. The pope said Jan. 7, that the latest attack on Christian churches in Iraq reflects a continuing climate

If I’m ever in a situation where I’m permanently unconscious and unable to eat,” says my father, “I’m begging you: Let me go. I don’t want to be kept alive by a feeding tube.” We are sitting at my parents’ table on a pleasant Sunday morning, with advan

The faithful witness of Alfred Delp, S.J.

Pope attacks the cruelty of Atheism" and Pope Replies to The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins were two of the headlines that greeted Benedict XVIs second encyclical, Saved by Hope (Spe Salvi). An Anglican bishop was more on target when he told me: I welcome this encyclical on Christian hope. Hope is

Faithful Citizens “A Future Without Parish Schools,” by Terry Golway, (12/10) raises a crucially important issue for the future of catechesis in the Catholic Church in the United States. Catholic parish schools have been an extremely important factor in providing for the catechesis of Ca

An informal survey of my black friends tells me they think that the interjection of the race issue into the 2008 primaries by Hillary Clinton and her surrogates was a calculated effort to paint Barack Obama as the black candidate when in fact his campaign is premised on a biography that transce

A reader has taken issue with my characterization of GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul as a libertarian wingnut I have reflected on the phrase and stand by it Indeed while libertarians can be very smart there is something a little crazy about their beliefs a craziness that is rooted in thei