Life would be so much less interesting if Professor Robert George was not around He has replied to my post yesterday with a post of his own over at Mirror of Justice Among other things he accuses me of an ad hominem attack when I wrote that the tone of his first post was condescending and that con

Just posted to our Web site a series of video interviews with soldiers and conscientious objecters exploring the dilemma of killing in war These videos are taken from the new Emmy-nominated documentary Soldiers of Conscience Many thanks to Ian Slattery for providing these clips Two examples

Since 1972 it has been accurate to say that older voters vote and younger voters don rsquo t Many youths don rsquo t even bother to register thereby wasting one of the greatest privileges of democracy But that description of politically apathetic youth is subject to change which it did most rec

nbsp Normally I don t blog about articles in the Culture section in the print edition but I want to draw your attention to an online slide show of the work of Jonathan Alpeyrie a prominent photographer who in December of 2009 visited the remote monastery of Kintsvisi in Georgia nbsp We fit a

Here on one of my favorite shows Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett carried on NPR are two of my favorite Jesuits and two friends George Coyne S J and Guy Consolmagno S J both astronomers working at the Vatican Observatory in Rome and in Tucson nbsp Just one is fun enough two is

The fifth in a series on Huffpost nbsp If only I could experience God then perhaps I could believe That s a refrain of quite a few seekers and agnostics But they may already have experienced God the desire for God is very often a sign of God s call to us In the echo of our longing for the