During my travels to New Orleans this past June I saw first-hand the good work that Catholic Charities of New Orleans is doing to help those affected by the oil spill in the Gulf including Chris Nelhig the fisherman pictured at right Catholic Charities has provided food rent assistance and cou

This month on newsstands and in bookstores you ll find a terrific new book which I highly recommend To coincide with the centennial of the birth of Mother Teresa Time has published nbsp Mother Teresa at 100 The Life and Works of a Modern Saint It s a fantastic introduction to her life writte

Some interesting news from my alma mater Yale Divinity School From the press release A scholarship in honor of the late Henri Nouwen who taught at Yale Divinity School for a decade beginning in 1971 has been established through a gift of 300 000 from a University benefactor who wishes to remai

In loving memory of the feast of St Ignatius on July 31 may I suggest a visit to the good Jesuits buried at the former St Andrew s Seminary now the Culinary Institute of America The institute is on Route 9 in Hyde Park New York Among those buried there is the paleontologist Teilhard de Chardi

A fine new movie Lebanon the winner of the 2009 Venice Film Festival has just been released in the States nbsp John McCarthy in a review on our online Culture section calls it bracing operatic and vivid nbsp His review begins Wolfgang Petersen rsquo s 1981 submarine thriller Das

Cambridge MA I must be candid I am not a stellar example of being a good neighbor While I try reasonably successfully to be a good neighbor at Harvard mdash attentive to my colleagues and students intuiting who I might help listening finding friends mdash nbsp I am not much of a neighbor o