Give praise where praise is due I am a frequent critic of Professor Robert George founder of the American Principles Project but in a recent post at Mirror of Justice Professor George is doing the work of the angels by challenging conservatives to be wary of libertarianism George refers to an a

The winner of the Palme d Or at the Cannes film festival this year was a Thai film about reincarnation while Of Gods and Men the true story of the 1996 massacre of French monks in Algeria by Islamists nbsp took the runner-up Grand Prix award The Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul s Uncle B

At Fordham University on Saturday our venerable commencement speaker and a recipient of an honorary doctorate was the Irish president Mary McAleese I was a faculty marshal carrying the mace for the Graduate School of Religion which meant among other things that I got to sit up on the s

You may not have heard of the Cathedral of Frombork on Poland s Baltic coast But the remains that were re-buried there yesterday after a ceremony led by Poland s leading churchmen were of one of the best-known scientists in history long associated with one of the most significant shifts in the way

Cambridge MA As you know from many lsquo fusion rsquo blogs I do not neatly separate out my weekend ministry as a priest and my work as a Catholic theologian who tries to learn deeply from Hinduism Another crossover moment is our current feast Pentecost As we hear in the first reading the

WHEN are we Catholics going to stop harping on slamming despising gay people During a recent Mass in the Diocese of Fresno I was asked to sign up for the Catholic Legislative Network I was in complete agreement with the pitch defense of the sanctity and dignity of life from conception to natural