Today after months of intense fighting and spending close to four billions dollars on campaigns Americans are headed to the polls If the pundits are right Republicans will take control of the House make some gains in the Senate and come out victorious in more than a few gubernatorial conte

Leo J O Donovan SJ president emeritus of Georgetown University is always on the lookout for art exhibitions that readers might find of interest nbsp Recently he visited a new show at New York s Metropolitan Museum of Art which has been receiving raves for its creative curation The World of

I hope you have been reading Austen Ivereigh s reports from Rome these past few weeks where events have occurred that will define important aspects of church growth in the future Within Ivereigh rsquo s excellent reporting is a story within a story perhaps unnoticed but important nevertheless As

The only Christians who remain in Iraq are those too old or too poor to attempt to escape many of the Iraqi refugees I interviewed last September in Amman Jordan assured me They said after years of threats kidnappings bombings and murders they would never return had no reason to return would n

When parents drop off the son or daughter at college they worry about several things Will the son or daughter be fed have the ldquo right rdquo roommate study without parental supervision drink too much and walk out in front of a car fall in with the wrong crowd or fall in love with a

Even if you re a believer you may think that the saints have nothing to do with your own life You ve no doubt read some of those gory stories of men and women having their eyes plucked out or tongues cut out or bodies devoured by lions in the Coliseum not to mention stories of their being behea