Just posted a special podcast with Costas Panagopoulos who offers advice on reading the presidential polls Professor Panagopoulos is director of Fordham University s Center for Electoral Politics and Democracy nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Podcast Powered By Podbean

These photos comes courtesy of Dan Groody C S C of the University of Notre Dame who recently traveled to Turkey to meet with Syrian refugees You can read his report here nbsp nbsp

Salon runs an excerpt of the book Faitheist How an Atheist Found Common Ground With the Religious in which the author explores atheist fundamentalism Our conversation continued and I offered up petitions that the positive contributions of religious people be considered with equal weight alongs

We are happy to have this on-the-ground report from Dan Groody C S C of the University of Notre Dame TURKEY--The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that the number of Syrians fleeing their country rsquo s violent conflict could number up to 700 000 by year rsquo s end and 1

One of the most interesting stories of the year in labor relations at Catholic institutions has been the movement of adjunct faculty to organize in unions Last month Pittsburgh rsquo s Duquesne University adjunct faculty voted 50 to 9 in favor of forming a union affiliated with the United Steelwork

More than eleven years after the attacks of Sept 11 2001 claimed the lives of their family members nine people traveled to Guant aacute namo Bay Cuba Oct 15-19 to attend the pre-trial hearings of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and five others accused of organizing and financing the attacks The defen