Last Tuesday Oct 30 the Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone announced that Pope Benedict XIV is sending a delegation of high-ranking churchmen on a mission of solidarity to Syria The seven-man delegation is exceptional not only for its size but for the experience of its member

Last night I was privileged to have been invited to the 67th annual Al Smith Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria only a few blocks away from our office Needless to say at 2 500 a seat I was someone s guest nbsp Most people may know the dinner nbsp as the occasion for the nbsp two p

Cambridge MA This is the last of the reflections I am posting on 3 Nephi the book within the Book of Mormon where Jesus appears three times shortly after the Resurrection to a remnant community in a new land that is taken to be though of course never named as America You can find the others

My friends from Christ in the Desert Monastery in Abiquiu NM visited The Today Show nbsp this morning nbsp to promote their new album aptly called Monks in the Desert nbsp Funny enough I have a simpler version of their lovely chants which I listen to quite frequently nbsp The prior had

Last night I stood outside the Media Operations Center in the darkness and quiet of the night It was nearly 2 00 a m and I was all alone It was my first experience of solitude peace and prayer since arriving at Guant aacute namo Bay Cuba two days earlier So far the whole experience of being

When I heard that Robert George McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University offered a critique of On All of Our Shoulders A Catholic Call to Protect the Endangered Common Good my pulse raced a bit nbsp The debate had been joined nbsp As a contributor to and signer of the doc