For those who have not yet heard the long-lived ensemble of rock royalty known as U2 are coming to Fordham s Rose Hill campus this Friday for an early-morning concert to be featured on the television show Good Morning America The rumors began earlier this week and were confirmed in an email f

As we reported on this blog the Vatican has announced that has scheduled an official visitation of women s religious orders next year Typically visitations and no the term has nothing to do with Mary and Elizabeth are undertaken to correct some kind of problematic situation in a dioces

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped yesterday to where it was in 1997 The date caught my attention That was the year before the Glass-Stiegel Act was repealed allowing banks into the investment business I hope the investor class is realizing that this may not be a coincidence What is the s

nbsp Hidden within a parenthesis deep in Matt Bai s profile of Newt Gingrich in last week s New York Times Magazine was the following bit of news A Baptist since graduate school Gingrich said he will soon convert to Catholicism his wife rsquo s faith Read it here nbsp

Lent is a season of prayer and penance A traditional nbsp instinctive reaction to the coming of Lent is to ask What penance will I do nbsp What will I give up nbsp More nbsp recently nbsp we have been challenged to ask more positively nbsp What out of a spirit of generosity or penance

The nomination of Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to be Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services has done more to ignite the intra-Catholic culture wars even than President Obama rsquo s decision to reverse the Mexico City policy As the announcement neared Catholic partisans of a