nbsp If good can come out of evil then it has done so with the transformation of President Barack Obama from the sealed-lips on gun control to the saddened eulogist at Sunday rsquo s memorial service in Newtown Conn for the 27 victims mostly grade-school children slaughtered by a gun-wielding

The Catholic Church in the US made the front-page many times in 2012 With a presidential election in November it was no surprise that many of the stories that grabbed our attention related to politics I asked a group of Catholics mdash priests nonprofit heads campus ministers students writers

nbsp Before seeing the movie quot Flight quot the last time I saw Fordham grad and benefactor Denzel Washington was in the movie quot Elie quot He had just relinquished his license to kill and at death rsquo s door had a religious experience worthy of any of the saints So it was jarring to

nbsp The story of Hannah in the first book of Samuel always tears my heart a little when I hear it Hannah is childless is almost past hoping for a child Yet she persists in praying for a baby Her prayer is answered and she becomes pregnant She promises to repay God for the favor The price

I am almost too tired of the whole issue to write any more words about it My entire career in journalism I have periodically been forced to compose some outraged paragraphs about the latest massacre or ldquo normal rdquo gun violence in Chicago Baltimore Milwaukee Camden you name it how m

Our friends at The Jesuit Post have published two reflections on the tragedy in Newtown Connecticut The first is from Sam Sawyer S J This afternoon the news began to break about the horrific school shooting in Newtown Connecticut And before we even knew how many had been shot or the identity