I met briefly with Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough Wednesday at the closing of the symposium ldquo International Religious Freedom An Imperative for Peace and the Common Good rdquo sponsored jointly by The Institute for Policy Research amp Catholic Studies the United States

We are happy to post this guest blog from Elias Mallon S A on the occasion of Pope Benedict s visit to Lebanon this weekend Dr Mallon a Franciscan Friar of the Atonement is education and interreligious affairs officer at the Catholic Near East Welfare Association In ecumenical discussions ab

I am on my way back from a conference on ecclesiology and ethnography that took place in the north of England at the University of Durham The theme of the conference was ldquo Ordinary Ecclesiology rdquo and most of the papers mdash from presenters hailing from the UK Western Europe and the U

It is sadly ironic that the horrible news out of Libya where the ambassador and three consular employees were killed after mob violence engulfed the U S consulate in Benghazi comes this morning as I travel to Washington for two days of conferences on the contemporary challenges to international r

To mark this week s nbsp release of the nbsp paperback edition of Between Heaven and Mirth I was asked by nbsp HarperOneVideo nbsp to film nbsp Forty Days of Funny a series of 40 jokes over the space of 40 days to remind nbsp readers and viewers nbsp that laughter is a gift from God humor is

This guest blog post comes courtesy of Joseph McShane S J the president of Fordham University In August Fordham University mdash along with Boston College DePaul Georgetown Holy Cross Marquette Notre Dame and San Francisco mdash filed an amicus brief before the Supreme Court in the case o