I can rsquo t let today go by without giving you a little snapshot of a wonderful gathering of committed religious and a bit of an epiphany that happened this weekend in Louisville Kentucky nbsp Which I was told several times was pronounced not Loo-ee-ville and not even Lou-a-ville but in fa

In 1952 my mother was a student teacher at the Horace Porter Elementary School in Columbia Connecticut She was teaching the children about the Soviet Union One of her students unhelpfully went home and told her parents my mother was teaching communism Within 48 hours she was hauled in front of

Cambridge MA The New York Times for Monday October 13 caught my eye three times over with items of sadness that pertain to interreligious relations interreligious thinking On the front page one article talked about the campaign dedicated to spreading the rumor that Barack Obama is a Muslim A

In a globalized world money flows like blood coursing through interconnected veins and capillaries nbsp into the furthest corners connecting up different parts in the most astonishing ways Like blood money can go toxic and when it does all those different parts are affected And they put up ba

Pope Benedict XVI has been speaking about his predecessor Pope Pius XII in very favorable terms lately specifically at the world Synod of Bishops when he explicitly mentioned Pius s response to the Holocaust nbsp All this has raised expectations that nbsp his beatification may be imminent nb

Last night I was part of a panel sponsored by the Boisi Center here at Boston College to discuss the Catholic vote in the 2008 election Our host was Alan Wolfe who is America rsquo s leading non-Catholic expert on Catholicism My co-panelist was Amy Sullivan read her latest column in Time magazin