I just finished reading and studying an important book which is quite germane in the middle of an election-year campaign What Money Can t Buy The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael Sandel Farrar Strauss and Giroux 2012 Sandel a gifted teacher and political philosopher who teaches at Harvard

From the London Tablet July 22 2012 The death of Eva Rausing the wife of billionaire Tetra Pak heir Hans Kristian Rausing has grabbed the headlines in the same way as the tragedies of singers Amy Winehouse and Whitney Houston People are both horrified and fascinated to learn that rich often t

Just posted to our Web site a look at a Jesuit mission on the Lakota Sioux reservation in South Dakota If you are looking for hope in South Dakota you do not look at numbers and percents and totals Among the native Lakota people social issues like alcohol drug abuse and teen suicide rack up

I rsquo ve never eaten at Chik-fil-A and I don rsquo t plan to go out of my way for fast-food fried chicken but many people seem quite nbsp enamored by their menu offerings and thus conflicted when deciding to boycott the company Why the boycott Chik-fil-A is a restaurant chain owned by Souther

Melbourne As my first diary indicated I am enjoying my first visit to Australia and this week expanded my horizons beyond Melbourne I spent last weekend in Sydney a city with a truly beautiful harbor and famed for the Opera House and Harbor Bridge It was cold too and rainy But such was ju

Bishop Leonard Blair of Toledo who conducted the Vatican s doctrinal assessment of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious appeared on NPR s Fresh Air in the second part of the program s look at the LCWR nbsp Here is the full interview with Terry Gross in which Bishop Blair stated his be