In a bit of believe me entirely unplanned serendipity both America and Commonweal this week have superb articles by American nuns on the apostolic visitation of women religious in the United States nbsp I urge you to read both nbsp Ours by Sister Ilia Delio a Franciscan sister and professo

Is the President right to question the advice of his military advisers You wouldn rsquo t think so to hear some of the conservative and neo-con pundits excoriate President Obama for refusing to simply accept General Stanley McChrystal rsquo s war plan for Afghanistan Yesterday National Security A

Sunday in the New York Times columnist Frank Rich added his voice to the growing number of analysts seeing little substantial change in the way politics is doing business since Barack Obama took office last January Rich s particular concern like that of Thomas Frank in the Wall Street Journal la

Cambridge MA As readers of this blog know I am quite interested in interreligious dialogue and in learning from Hindu traditions I have been blessed with many Hindu friends over the years and many of these have also challenged me and raised difficult questions that were good for me to answer

While the U S media was burning through precious fossil fuels dedicating megawatts to Obama s OLYMPIAN FAILURE Wonderful Copenhagen my left foot and David Letterman s news of the weird other things were happening on the planet that you might find of interest Two young Iranians were detai

One of our newest Culture writers is Fr Terrance W Klein an associate nbsp professor of theology at Fordham University and author of the book Vanity Faith Searching for Spirituality Among the Stars nbsp He also wrote last week s review on Mad Men nbsp likening nbsp the hit AMC series nbsp t