Today after months of intense fighting and spending close to four billions dollars on campaigns Americans are headed to the polls If the pundits are right Republicans will take control of the House make some gains in the Senate and come out victorious in more than a few gubernatorial conte

Now that some of the dust has settled regarding Arizona s harsh immigration law in which police are directed to detain any person suspected of being in the country illegally and who cannot produce papers to prove otherwise NPR has filed a report highlighting the disturbing influence that a for-pro

Here s a fun story involving a group of Catholic sisters in Baltimore and what proved to be a very kind donation From the Associated Press Sister Virginia Muller had never heard of shortstop Honus Wagner But she quickly learned the baseball great is a revered figure among collectors pictured

The Public Religion Research Institute released a poll that shows four in 10 Americans say that their churches present a negative view of homosexuality and finds that Catholics were the most critical of their own churches messages on nbsp homosexuality Further Only five out of 100 people ga

Check out the brief NPR interview with National Catholic Reporter s John Allen about the batch of new cardinals named by Pope Benedict and what it may mean for the future of the Church In short probably nothing dramatic Allen says the announcement would be like a midterm election in which all the

The Washington Post s Michael Gerson picks up on a remark made by President Obama at a rally in Boston last week claiming that it further demonstrates the president is out of touch with average Americans Campaigning for Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick Obama said that Part of the reason tha

I watched Waiting for Superman this weekend read America s Raymond A Schroth s review here and found the film a thought provoking couple hours in which the director Davis Guggenheim examines the darker side of American public education a system where so many children are failed by schools that

A couple interesting posts on the recent rash of gay suicide victims across the nation see In All Things reactions here and here First openly gay Fort Worth TX city councilor Joel Burns made a tearful plea for gay youth to avoid the temptation of despair that comes along with bullying and hatr

Perhaps more than other Christians who seem more open to floating freely among various denominations for worship and identity Catholics tend to view some other churches as monolithic institutions with clear doctrine and discipline guiding all members along a straight and narrow path But the cove

I spent much of this weekend reflecting on last week rsquo s post by Fr Jim Martin on what the Catholic response could be to young people who despair to the point of ending their lives because of the negative messages they receive and bullying they endure for being gay Jim rsquo s thoughtfulness t