Greyhound the bus of necessity rather than of choice for many low-income travelers around the country provides its tickets more cheaply for those who buy them online That transaction though assumes you have a credit card and internet access for online purchasing Low income people who do not ha
Last Friday I called attention to the very fine article by Professor David Nirenberg in the current issue of The New Republic in which he reviews Pope Benedict rsquo s encyclical Caritas in Veritate And I posted a link to my initial response to Nirenberg which has itself garnered some interesting
Cambridge MA We are now safely into Fall and so it is really time to clear off my desk of books that came in during the summer that is to say books that were sent to me sometimes from friends or authors I rsquo ve known over the years and sometimes out of the blue In front of me right now ar
nbsp nbsp nbsp Our daughter s best friend got married over Labor Day weekend Our families met in 1986 when our oldest girls were three years old It was a beautiful wedding in beautiful Monterey where the newlyweds live The wedding theme was oceanic and tropical the bridesmaids in slim stra
The New Republic has an interesting review of Pope Benedict s encyclical Caritas in Veritate I think it speaks well of both that non-Catholic journal and of the substantiveness of Pope Benedict s thought that they even took cognizance of it and did so more thoughtfully than many Catholic commenta
The mainstream media of which this journal is a part relies on reporting on evidence on weighing a variety of opinions on controversial topics etc and generally I think the MSM does a fine job Certainly the press makes all politicians of all ideological stripes uncomfortable and accountable