While Congress began another round of government by brinkmanship and self-inflicted wound I stumbled upon a couple of maps of the United States today that offer a depressing update not on the nation s highway system perhaps on the American dream The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities digs a

The famous mdash or notorious mdash ldquo Ground Zero Mosque rdquo a proposed Islamic community center two blocks from the former site of the Word Trade Center which so terrified some Manhattanites months ago opened last Wednesday night with no fire bombings or pickets In only a few paragraphs

Tomorrow around the world in 168 countries and around the United States myriad events will celebrate a mobilization for addressing global warming around the slogan of a moving planet Sponsored by 350 org the mobilization and its events call for marches bicycle tours green fairs clean ups tr

Notre Dame football coach Brian Kelly took some heat this week from Peter Finney writing in New Orleans archdiocesan paper the Clarion Herald where he serves as Executive Editor During a couple of frustrating losses this season you didn t need to be a lip-reader to figure out what Kelly was we

Just posted to our Web site David Hollenbach S J on what South Sudan can learn from Catholic teaching as it struggles to set a course for the future The Catholic community in South Sudan especially shares the responsibility to help shape the life of the new country Catholics are a sizable part

One of the more interesting aspects of the recent GOP presidential debates has been the astounding exhortation of extreme individualism the notion that every person is in it for him or herself and that government should not provide any sort of safety net or assistance to those in need there i