Congratulations to Francis X Clooney a frequent contributor to In All Things who has just been appointed as the director of Harvard Divinity School s Center for the Study of World Religions nbsp nbsp Fr Clooney joined the HDS faculty in 2005 as the Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professo

Bad faith can be found in both the extreme left- and right-wing camps It is most commonly found not among simple people whose prejudices are close to the surface but among intellectuals and pseudo-intellectuals people who claim to be one thing but then in an instant they expose their less a

We are grateful to the many friends of America who are joining us this evening and I extend a warm welcome to the friends of Archbishop Williams who are here to celebrate with him nbsp We at America owe nbsp special debt of appreciation as well to our good friends Archbishop Celestino Migliore

It would be impossible to do justice to Archbishop Rowan Williams rsquo gracious and deeply moving nbsp remarks upon his reception of the 2009 Campion Award nbsp After nbsp a welcome nbsp by our editor in chief Drew Christiansen S J which will be posted soon the Archbishop of Canterbury dila

Just a few days after Secretary of Defense Bob Gates speaking in Islamabad Pakistan called the Taliban part of Afghanistan s political fabric U S nbsp General Stanley McChrystal the NATO commander in Afghanistan told the Financial Times why he thought the U S troop surge could lead to a ne

I spent last week in New Haven mourning the death of my grandfather and celebrating his long life I was fortunate to be with his wife of 62 years my grandmother and my aunts uncles and cousins during this difficult time My grandfather was the son of German Catholic immigrants and he served in