With the blessing of the Holy Father granted the 20th of June 2005 and after having obtained a positive vote from the Assistants for provident care and from the Provincials of the whole Society on the seriousness of the reasons to resign I present now to the judgement of the General Congregation

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On Meet the Press this morning Senator Hillary Clinton accused her host Tim Russert of being Jesuitical in his argumentation The Jesuit-educated Russert Canisius High School in Buffalo N Y and John Carroll University in Cleveland was pressing Senator Clinton on her 2002 vote to authori

As some of you no doubt noticed author and occasional America contributor Michael Sean Winters has joined the ranks of our bloggers Michael has written for The New Republic and Slate and is the author of the forthcoming Left at the Altar How the Democrats Lost the Catholics and How the Catholic

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The Wire by far my favorite show on television is now in its fifth and final season on HBO Even if you haven t been watching this sprawling Baltimore-based drama you can catch up with this handy synopsis of seasons 1-4 As I noted in my recent OMT each season of The Wire focuses on a di