Reports in recent days described the deluge of phone calls that members of Congress have received about the bailout legislation By all accounts virtually all callers have been demanding that Wall Street not be bailed out In the wake of the failed House vote yesterday the vociferous and seemingly

Bipartisanship has become a mantra in Washington as the nation faces an unprecedented economic crisis And after 20 years of slash-and-burn partisanship there is something to be said for bipartisanship But yesterday the blame for Congress rsquo s failure to structure a bailout rests partly with

It takes a European to ask this I know And I tread gingerly here - at least by my own largely ginger-free standards Only nbsp whatever happened to the death penalty as a moral priority for Catholics in the US presidential election Why don t they challenge their candidates on the issue It

Fr Jim Martin introduces centering prayer a freer form of meditation than lectio divina or Ignatian contemplation Visit our Youtube page for all of Fr Jim s videos Tim Reidy

Today rsquo s New York Times contains a story about the Community Synagogue in NYC east 6th Street and its hiring of a Lubavitcher rabbi Simon Jacobson to attract the spiritually curious and thus help save an aging congregation Part of the theological provocation of the story is that what man

In 1936 near the end of the election campaign a Roman Catholic priest gave a nationwide radio address endorsing Franklin Delano Roosevelt for re-election In this critical hour I urge you to use every effort at your command among your relatives friends and acquaintances in support of Franklin D