We now enjoy public discussion about a Mass in which the priest faces ad orientem some like to refer to this position as with his back to the people while others like to refer to this position as towards the east itself a reference to the direction from which in olden times God was ex

Sen Barack Obama is not campaigning on a hope and a prayer but if he has a prayer of winning he needs to flesh out his hopeful vision for the country He has presented himself as a transformational leader a claim that coheres nicely with his untraditional biography Still he needs to provide

Pollsters and pundits have been beating themselves up since they failed to predict Hillary Clinton s surprise victory in the New Hampshire primary But the pollsters were not that far off Polls estimated that Barack Obama would receive between 36 and 42 percent of the vote and he captured 36 J

The exit polls from New Hampshire may keep Mike Huckabee awake tonight We all know that Huckabee won in Iowa because of the big turn-out of born-again and evangelical voters And we all knew that Huckabee would carry the evangelical vote in New Hampshire but still lose the primary because there jus

In large part this book about U S -Iranian-Israeli international relations sets out to make a case for the progressive secularization of the post-revolutionary Iranian state In Treacherous Alliance Trita Parsi adjunct professor of international relations at Johns Hopkins University argues cogent

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As a title, No Country for Old Men boasts a noble ancestry. It traces its roots through the novel by Cormac McCarthy to the opening line of William Butler Yeats’s poem “Sailing to Byzantium.” In the poem Yeats yearns to leave the ephemeral world of “whatever is begotten, born

Fuzzy Focus Regarding My Second First Mass (12/3): While Father Kerpers insights about priestly service are to be applauded, there is a troubling impression that readers can be left with from comparison of presiding at the extraordinary form versus the ordinary form of Mass. He writes, I actually fe