In ldquo Crashing the Tea Party rdquo an Op Ed piece in the New York Times 8 16 David E Campbell and Robert D Putnam present data they have culled from their own repeated interviews since 2006 Their primary finding is that the Tea Party has become increasingly unpopular with the American pu

Did you think the international child abuse crisis couldn t get any worse Apparently it could The Wall Street Journal reports Dutch authorities said Tuesday they were investigating possible murders at a Catholic institution for psychiatrically ill boys during the 1950s nbsp A total of 34 childr

I was reading Esquire on the flight home to visit friends and family last week when I came across this bit of insight from the actress Helen Mirren The hardest period in life is one s twenties It s a shame because you re your most gorgeous and you re physically in peak condition But it s actually

Michael Rossmann SJ a Jesuit scholastic from the Wisconsin Province is with the millions of young people at World Youth Day in Madrid after having participated with many of his Jesuit brothers in the Magis Program of Ignatian spirituality in Loyola Spain nbsp nbsp Michael is also reportin

In our August 1-8 issue America ran a current comment A New Tone in Rome about how Archbishop Jo atilde o Br aacute z de Aviz as the new head of the Roman congregation that oversees religious life has begun to address the mistrust and confrontational attitudes that accompanied the recent stud

It is amazing how as history rushes by American culture fixated on the ldquo now rdquo can be cut off from its roots nbsp Just as college professors meet recent generations who can not tell World War I from World War II more and more can not tell Franklin D Roosevelt from Franklin Pierce