Few psychiatrists apologize or have their regrets appear on the front page of the New York Times-- above the fold no less nbsp But Dr Robert Spitzer is rightly described as a giant of modern psychiatry nbsp He has made news many times by taking controversial stands against prevailing opinions

nbsp nbsp Few psychiatrists apologize or have their regrets appear on the front page of the New York Times-- above the fold no less nbsp But Dr Robert Spitzer is rightly described as a giant of modern psychiatry nbsp He has made news many times by taking controversial stands against prevai

Notre Dame has now joined a number of other Catholic institutions in filing suit against a new mandate from the Department of Health and Human Services that may require the inclusion of contraceptive services in health plans beginning in August 2013 at religious institutions such as Notre Dame and o

Here s a lovely piece in The Boston Globe about Dan Kennedy a bright young man just graduated from Boston College who is entering the Jesuit novitiate this summer nbsp nbsp The profile nbsp gets pretty much everything right about its topic and avoids all the linguistic pitfalls that bedevil most

From Andrea Tornielli of La Stampa via Mirada Global nbsp It looks like one of the destinies that Benedict XVI the theologian turned Pope at the age of 78 is similar to that of his predecessor Paul VI who appointed him Archbishop of Munich creating him cardinal in 1977- is that of being cr

The New York Times opinion section offers a long op-ed on the perhaps non-existent Catholic vote in which the author notes that Catholics are split evenly right now between the two candidates running for president and some thoughts on how the campaigns might gain Catholic votes From the column