Normally the charge of lunacy is a bit ad hominem for these pages But what if the charge of lunacy is actually exculpatory like a plea of temporary insanity at a murder trial I raise the issue because a large number of Tea Party folk who descended upon Washington yesterday to commemorate tax d

Pope Benedict XVI - Catholics like me have been insisting these past weeks on TV and radio - is a key part of the solution to the clerical sexual abuse crisis which is why the media attempt to scapegoat him is so misguided Indeed what has surfaced from the recent firestorm is how providential it

President Obama amplifying remarks of former Secretaty of State Condolezza Rice during the Bush administration and more recently by Vice President Biden and CENTCOM s General David Petreaus said something out loud that appears radical but is actually rather obvious resolving the long-running Mid

Why did the U S bishops fight the health care bill until the end even when President Obama signed an executive order prohibiting the use of federal funds for abortion The bill may now be law but questions still linger In this Web-only article Nicholas P Cafardi of Duquesne University School o

I m always up for something new and fun especially if it s just down the street nbsp Anyway when the good people at Bigthink a hip new website nbsp called me up for series of interviews in their way-cool downtown studio I was game nbsp They ask all sorts of experts sitting in front of

Cambridge MA You may recall from Jim Martin rsquo s kind notice in January that on July 1 I will become director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard I haven rsquo t done a thing yet but the Center moves along steadily and indeed has become venerable this week marking it