I have been on pilgrimage this spring and traveled with boon companions I rsquo ve kept late nights with Dorothy Day toted Thomas Merton on the train chuckled with Flannery O rsquo Connor over her tales of kindred freaks and got lost with Walker Percy in the cosmos They rsquo ve come with me ac

As one brother recovers in a prison hospital from wounds he received briefly eluding capture the remains of the other Tsarnaev brother linger in limbo His now quasi- and unhappily famous uncle Ruslan Tsami is trying to arrange his burial with the assistance of Peter Stefan a funeral home director

Barack Obama has changed About six years ago I stood two feet away from him in the St Peter rsquo s College Jersey City Gym which he had rented for a campaign rally and watched him deal one by one with the crowd that squeezed around him and told myself that maybe this was the one we had been wa

In the May 4 1963 issue of America the editors surveyed the impact of John XXIII 39 s encyclical on war and peace Initial reactions to Pope John 39 s encyclical Pacem in Terris quickly revealed areas in which its practical impact can be expected to make itself felt When the London Sunday Times ha

In the midst of Ernest Hemingway rsquo s novel The Sun Also Rises a successful novelist Bill Gorton demands that his friend Jake Barnes mdash the novel rsquo s narrator mdash give him ldquo irony and pity rdquo one morning in a friendly repartee Jake Barnes has been trying to write fiction

Thirty years ago today May 3 1983 the Catholic bishops in the United States published their landmark pastoral letter ldquo The Challenge of Peace God rsquo s Promise and Our Response rdquo a political and moral analysis of U S nuclear policies during the cold war Writing as ldquo pastors