As conditions for Chaldean Catholics in Iraq deteriorate and political unrest threatens Christians in Lebanon the Kingdom of Jordan remains a small oasis of relative calm for the Middle East rsquo s Christian minority Christians here remain confident of their acceptance by the larger Muslim societ

The NYT CBS poll Sept 10-14 2010 is just one random sample a national telephone poll conducted a few weeks before an important Congressional election Yet the information in it indicates what is actually on the mind of registered voters which is reason enough to pay close attention to what vot

Cambridge MA A note to the interested In my entry on Saturday I spoke of my existential moment juggling watching the Pope in the UK my most interesting and daunting life at Harvard and the prospect of preaching on I Timothy 2 with its own triple focus on the king the one God and the one he

The conversation on the future of Catholic education continues as three more respondents weigh in on Archbishop Dolan s article The Catholic Schools We Need Patrick J McCloskey author of The Street Stops Here argues that Catholic schools could flourish if more institutions and individuals wer

Ross Douthat an intelligent and literate Catholic observer nbsp and a columnist nbsp in the New York Times writes perceptively nbsp on the surprising turnout for Pope Benedict in light of the protests by atheists like Richard Dawkins and predictions of embarrassing crowds nbsp The same phenome

Many of us today remember C. S. Lewis for writing the books which led to the film series “Chronicles of Narnia.”